Rashin lafiyarsa ta ƙarshe
His Final Illness
[ʿAbd Allāh:] Mahaifina ya gaya mini: “Na rayu shekara saba’in da bakwai, kuma na fara ta saba’in da takwas.” 79.1
[ʿAbd Allāh:] My father told me: “I’ve lived seventy-seven years and started my seventy-eighth.” 79.1
A wannan daren kuma ya kamu da zazzabi. Ya rasu a ranar goma, a shekara ta 241 [855].
That same night he took fever. He died on the tenth, in ’41 [855].
[Al-Jawharī:] Na tafi ziyartar Ibn Ḥanbal a kurkuku, sai na tarar da Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥaddād tare da shi. Abū Saʿīd ya tambaye shi yadda yake ji. 79.2
[Al-Jawharī:] I went to visit Ibn Ḥanbal in jail and found Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥaddād there with him. Abū Saʿīd asked him how he was feeling. 79.2
"To wannan," ya amsa. "Lafiya lau, sai godiya ta tabbata ga Allah!" "Ko jiya da daddare kana da zazzabi?" "In na ce lafiya lau," in ji Aḥmad, "to kada ka ƙara tambaya. Ba na son mu yi magana a kan wani abu abin ƙyama." [Ṣāliḥ:] A ranar farko ta watan Rabīʿ I na shekara ta 241, a daren Talata,470 mahaifina ya kamu da zazzabi. Washegari na je na ganshi. Yana da zazzabi kuma yana numfashi da wahala sosai. Na san yadda cutukansa ke tafiya, ni ne nake kula da shi duk lokacin da bai da lafiya. 79.3