Al-Marrūdhī: Na ji wannan daga wani mutum a Tarsus. 88.1

[Al-Marrūdhī:] I heard this from a man in Tarsus. 88.1

"Ni ɗan Yemen ne, kuma ina da ɗiya wadda aljani ya shiga. Na kawo wasu masu korar aljanu, suka fitar da aljaninta, suka sa shi ya yi alkawarin ba zai sake dawowa ba. Amma bayan shekara guda sai ya dawo."

“I’m from Yemen, and I have a daughter who was possessed. I brought in some exorcists who drove out her jinni and made it promise not to return. But then a year later it came back.

"Ba ka yi alkawarin ba za ka dawo ba ne?" na tambaya.

“‘Didn’t you promise not to come back?’ I asked.

“Na yi,” in ji aljani. “Amma wani mutum mai suna Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal ya rasu a ƙasar Iraƙi, sai dukan aljanu—sai dai shaiɗanu, kamar ni—suka tafi yi masa salla. Amma ba zan dawo ba.” Bai taɓa dawowa ba. Wannan labari ya zo mana ta wata hanyar ba da labari daban kuma.

“‘I did,’ said the jinni. ‘But a man named Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal has died in Iraq and all the jinns—except for the demons, like me—have gone to pray over him. But I won’t be back again.’ “He never returned.” This story has also come down to us in another telling.

[Abū Muḥammad al-Yamānī:] Lokacin da nake Yaman, wani mutum ya gaya mani cewa 'yarsa ta shiga cikin aljani. Sai na kai shi wurin wani malamin tsafe-tsafen fitar da aljanu daga cikin mutane a Yaman, wanda ya fitar da aljanin da ke cikinta, ya kuma sa shi ya yi alkawarin ba zai dawo ba. Amma sai bayan kimanin watanni shida mahaifinta ya zo wurina ya ce aljanin ya dawo. 88.2

[Abū Muḥammad al-Yamānī:] When I was in Yemen, a man told me that his daughter had been possessed by a demon. So I took him to one of our Yemeni exorcists, who drove out her jinni and made it promise not to return. But then about six months later her father came to me and said the demon had returned. 88.2

"Ka koma wurin mai koran aljanu," na ce.

“Go back to the exorcist,” I said.

Sai ya koma baya. Mai fitar da aljani ya fitar da aljanin, ya sa shi yin magana.

So he went back. The exorcist drew out the jinni and got it talking.

“Kunya ta tabbata a kanka!” in ji mai korar aljannu. “Ashe ba ka alkawarta za ka bar ta ba?” “Na yi alkawari,” in ji aljani. “Amma mun ji cewa Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal ya rasu. Dukkan aljannu nagari sun tafi jajanta masa, kuma aljannu masu tsananin kama da ni suna biye a bayansu.” [Al-Khallāl:] Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd ya gaya mini kamar haka: 88.3

“Shame on you!” said the exorcist. “Didn’t you promise to leave her alone?” “I did,” said the jinni. “But we’ve heard that Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal is dead. All the righteous jinns have gone to mourn him, and the demons like me are tagging along behind.” [Al-Khallāl:] Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd told me the following: 88.3

Na kasance a kan hanya ta komawa daga Sind a cikin jirgin ruwa. A wani lokaci na farka da dare, sai na ji wata murya tana kira daga cikin teku: "Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, bawan Allah mai aminci, ya mutu!" "Menene wannan?" na tambayi wani daga cikin waɗanda ke cikin jirgin.

I was on my way back from Sind on board ship. At one point I woke up in the night and heard a voice calling from the sea, “Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, the faithful servant of God, is dead!” “What was that?” I asked one of the others on board.

"Wancan aljani ne mai adalci." Daga baya muka sani cewa Aḥmad ya rasu a wannan daren.

“That was a righteous jinni.” We later learned that Aḥmad had died that night.

[Al-Khallāl:] Haka kuma na ji cewa Abū Zurʿah ya ce a yankinsa na Khurasan, aljannu sun yi shelar mutuwar Aḥmad kwana arba'in kafin ta faru.

[Al-Khallāl:] I also heard that Abū Zurʿah said that where he was from in Khurasan, the jinns announced Aḥmad’s death forty days before it happened.

Na kuma ji ɗan Aḥmad, Ṣāliḥ, yana cewa: "Bayan kwanaki arba'in da mahaifina ya rasu, bayan kowa ya kwanta barci, iyalina sun ce sun ji kukan kuka, irin wanda babu wani mutum da zai yi, yana fitowa daga gidan mahaifina."

I also heard Aḥmad’s son Ṣāliḥ say, “Forty days after my father died, after everyone had gone to bed, my family said they heard a sobbing, unlike any sound a human would make, coming from my father’s house.”