Death
Ibn Abidin died on 21 Rabi al-thani in the year 1252 AH at the age of 54 years.His funeral prayer was led by his own teacher Saýīd al-Ĥalabī who broke down, weeping and clutching his his own beard said: ‘I was treasuring you, for what comes after my old age’. Prayers were held in the Sināniyyah mosque and he was buried – in accordance with his will – near the grave of Shaykh Álāuddin al-Ĥaşkafī, the author of Durr al-Mukhtār and next to the great muĥaddith Şāliĥ al-Jaynīnī in Damascus.
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