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Death

See also: Mausoleum of Saladin

Saladin's tomb, Damascus, Syria.

Saladin's tomb, near Umayyad Mosque's NW corner. Saladin died of a fever on 4 March 1193, at Damascus, not long after King Richard's departure. In Saladin’s possession at the time of his death, there were one piece of gold and forty pieces of silver.[104] He had given away his great wealth to his poor subjects, leaving nothing to pay for his funeral.[105] He was buried in a mausoleum in the garden outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. Seven centuries later, Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany donated a new marble sarcophagus to the mausoleum. The original sarcophagus was not replaced, however. Instead, the mausoleum, which is open to visitors, now has two sarcophagi: the marble one placed on the side and the original wooden one, which covers Saladin's tomb. (Muslims are buried in a simple shroud, so if there are any sarcophagi present, they are usually used for covering the top of the Islamic burials.)[citation needed]  