[Ṣāliḥ:] Lokacin da mahaifina ya rasu, tituna sun cika da masu makoki. Na aika da sako cewa zan fitar da gawarsa bayan an gama sallar la'asar. 81.1

[Ṣāliḥ:] When my father died the streets filled with mourners. I sent word that I would bring his body out when the afternoon prayer was over. 81.1

Ibn Ṭāhir ya aika mana da hadimin sa, Muẓaffar, tare da bundiyoyin zane, turare, da saƙo: "Sarki yana aika gaisuwarsa kuma yana cewa, 'Ina yin abin da Shugaban Muminai zai yi idan yana nan.'" Sai na ce, "Ku mayar da gaisuwa, kuma ku faɗa masa cewa a lokacin da Aḥmad yake raye, an keɓe shi daga yin duk abin da yake ƙyama. Ba zan ɗora masa wani abu mai ƙyama ba yanzu da ya rasu." Sai ya amsa, "A naɗe shi da wannan zanen, kuma a sa wani abu a kansa." Sai na sake maimaita abin da na faɗa.

Ibn Ṭāhir sent us his chamberlain Muẓaffar with bundles of cloth, perfumes, and a message: “The emir conveys his greetings and says, ‘I am doing what the Commander of the Faithful would do if he were here.’” I said, “Return the greeting and tell him that while Aḥmad was alive, he was exempt from doing anything he detested. I’m not going to inflict anything detestable on him now that he’s dead.” “Wrap him in this cloth,” he replied, “and put something else over it.” I repeated what I had said.

Mahaifina ya mallaka wata baiwa wacce ta sakar da wani yadi mai tsawon kamu goma, wanda darajarsa dirhami ashirin da takwas, don a yi masa riga biyu. Sai muka yanke daga cikinsa tsiri biyu don a naɗe shi da su.

My father’s slave woman had spun a ten-cubit length of cloth worth twenty-eight dirhams to be used to make two shirts. From it we cut two strips to wrap him in.

Ana ɗaukar wani yanki daga Fūrān, muna da layuka uku na zane domin naɗe jiki.478 Mu ne muka sayi turaren ƙanshi da kanmu. Wani abokin aikinmu wanda ƙwararren mai turare ne ya tambaye mu ko zai iya aiko mana da wasu daga cikin nasa, amma ban yarda ba.

Taking another strip from Fūrān, we had three layers of cloth to wrap the body.478 We bought the aromatics ourselves. An associate of ours who was a perfumer asked if he could send us some of his but I wouldn’t let him.

A tsakanin lokaci, wani ya ɗauki wata tukunyar ruwanmu ya zuba ruwa a cikinta. Na ce musu su gaya wa Fūrān ya sayi kwalabe na fata ya cika tukunyar da mahaifina yake sha da ita, domin shi ba zai taɓa karɓar komai daga gidajenmu ba.

Meanwhile, someone had taken a jar of ours and poured water into it. I told them to tell Fūrān to buy a waterskin and fill the jar my father used to drink from, since he would never take anything from our houses.

Bayan da aka gama wanke jikin, sai muka naɗe shi a cikin kafanun, yayin da wasu ɗari daga cikin mutanen kabilar Hāshim suna kallo. Da zarar mun ɗaga jikin a kan gadon ɗauka, sai suka fara sumbantar goshinsa.

When the body had been washed we wrapped it in the shrouds with some hundred members of the clan of Hāshim looking on. As soon as we got the body onto the bier they began kissing him on the forehead.

[Al-Marrūdhī:] Yayin da nake shirin yi masa wanka, sai ga isassun mutanen kabilar Hāshim sun zo har gidan ya cika. Saboda haka muka kai shi cikin ɗakunansa, muka sauke labulen ƙofa, muka rufe shi da wani zane yayin da muke aikinmu. Babu wani baƙo da ya halarci wankan gawar. Da aka gama hakan, muka shirya yi masa kafani, amma mutanen Hāshim suka tura mu gefe, suna kuka, suna miƙa yaran su a kan gawar, suna sumbatar ta. A ƙarshe muka ɗora shi a kan gadon ɗaukar gawa, muka ɗaure shi da shi ta amfani da ɗigon zanen ɗamara. Ibn Ṭāhir ya aika da wasu kafani, amma na mayar da su. Kawunsa ya ce wa manzon, "Bai ma bari bawana ya yi masa iska ba." Wani kuma ya ce, "Ya nemi a yi masa kafani da tufafinsa." 81.2

[Al-Marrūdhī:] As I was preparing to wash him, enough tribesmen of Hāshim arrived to fill the house. So we took him into his set of rooms, let down the door curtain, and covered him with a cloth while we worked. No outsiders were present for the washing of the corpse. When that was done, we prepared to shroud him, but the Hāshimīs pushed us aside, weeping, pushing their children forward over the body, and kissing it. Finally we got him onto the bier and bound him to it using strips of turban cloth. Ibn Ṭāhir had sent some shrouds but I sent them back. His uncle told the messenger, “He wouldn’t even let my slave fan him.” Someone else said, “He asked to be shrouded in his own clothes.” 81.2

A ƙarshe mun naɗe shi a cikin wani yanki na zane na Marawī da yake shirin yin wasu tufafi da shi. Mun ƙara wani yanki a kansa, sai muka naɗe shi da yadudduka uku.

In the end we shrouded him in a piece of Marawī fabric that he had been planning to make some clothes from. We added another piece to it and so wrapped him in three layers of cloth.