[Al-Haytham ibn Khalaf:] Kami memakamkan Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal pada tahun 241 H, setelah shalat Ashar. Aku belum pernah melihat orang sebanyak itu berkumpul di satu tempat. 83.1

[Al-Haytham ibn Khalaf:] We buried Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal in 241, after the afternoon prayer. I never saw so many people in one place. 83.1

[Al-Qanṭarī:] Aku telah menyaksikan empat puluh kali haji, tetapi belum pernah aku melihat orang sebanyak yang kulihat saat itu. 83.2

[Al-Qanṭarī:] I’ve seen forty pilgrimages but never so many people as I did then. 83.2

[Al-Warrāq:] Kami belum pernah mendengar ada lebih banyak orang yang berkumpul di satu tempat, baik pada masa Jahiliyah maupun pada masa Islam. Kami bahkan pernah mendengar bahwa tempat itu disurvei dan jumlah orang di sana diperkirakan dengan cermat. Hasilnya sekitar satu juta orang, ditambah sekitar enam puluh ribu wanita yang saya hitung sedang menyaksikan dari atas tembok.

[Al-Warrāq:] We’ve never heard of more people gathering in one place, whether in the Age of Ignorance or in the Age of Islam. We’ve even heard that the place was surveyed and a proper estimate made of the number of people there. It came to about a million, plus the sixty thousand or so women I counted looking on from the walls.

Orang-orang telah membuka pintu-pintu rumah di sepanjang jalan dan gang bagi siapa pun yang ingin masuk dan berwudu. Orang-orang juga membeli air minum dalam jumlah yang besar. 83.3

People had opened the gates of the houses all along the streets and alleys to anyone who wanted to come in and do their ablutions. People also bought great quantities of drinking water. 83.3

[Al-Baghawī:] Bunān ibn Aḥmad al-Qaṣabānī menceritakan kepada kami bahwa dia hadir pada pemakaman Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. 83.4

[Al-Baghawī:] Bunān ibn Aḥmad al-Qaṣabānī told us that he was present for the funeral of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. 83.4

Ada orang-orang yang berbaris dari alun-alun hingga ke jembatan di Bāb al-Qaṭīʿah.

“There were people lined up from the square as far as the bridge at Bāb al-Qaṭīʿah.

"Perkiraan yang saya dengar adalah delapan ratus ribu laki-laki dan enam puluh ribu perempuan." [Mūsā ibn Hārūn:] Dataran luas tempat orang-orang berdiri setelah Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal wafat diukur, dan jumlah orang yang hadir dihitung lebih dari enam ratus ribu, belum termasuk mereka yang berada di sisi-sisi, di pinggiran, di atas atap, dan yang tersebar di sekeliling, yang jika dihitung akan membuat totalnya lebih dari satu juta. 83.5

The estimates I heard were of eight hundred thousand men and sixty thousand women.” [Mūsā ibn Hārūn:] The flat tracts of land where people stood after Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal died were surveyed and the number of people present was calculated to have been more than six hundred thousand, not counting the ones off to the side, around the edges, on the roofs, and scattered around, who if counted would have brought the total to more than a million. 83.5

[Al-Warrāq:] Selain satu pemakaman tertentu yang terjadi di kalangan Bani Israil, kami tidak pernah mendengar adanya jumlah kaum Muslim yang berkumpul di satu tempat lebih banyak daripada yang hadir dalam iring-iringan pemakaman Ibnu Hanbal. 83.6

[Al-Warrāq:] Not counting a certain funeral that took place among the Children of Israel, we have never heard of there being more Muslims gathered in one place than there were for Ibn Ḥanbal’s funeral procession. 83.6

[Al-Fatḥ ibn al-Ḥajjāj?:] Amirul Mukminin mengutus dua puluh orang untuk memperkirakan berapa banyak orang yang menshalatkan Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Mereka menghitung 1.300.000 orang, ditambah orang-orang yang berada di atas perahu. 83.7

[Al-Fatḥ ibn al-Ḥajjāj?:] The Commander of the Faithful sent twenty men to estimate how many people prayed over Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. They counted 1,300,000, plus the people who were on boats. 83.7

Abū Zurʿah: Saya mendengar bahwa al-Mutawakkil memerintahkan agar dilakukan pengukuran terhadap area tempat orang-orang berdiri ketika salat jenazah untuk Aḥmad dilaksanakan. Ternyata area itu dapat menampung 2.500.000 orang. 83.8

[Abū Zurʿah:] I heard that al-Mutawakkil ordered a survey of the area where people were standing while the funeral prayer was said for Aḥmad. It turned out there was room for 2,500,000 people. 83.8

[Al-Ḥasan al-Maqāniʿī:] Saya berada di Baghdad, sendirian di sebuah kebun milik seorang teman, ketika saya melihat dua orang laki-laki—yang satu tua, yang lain muda—berpakaian jubah bulu kasar yang compang-camping. Saya mengucapkan salam kepada mereka dan berkata, "Kalian tampak seperti orang asing di sini." 83.9

[Al-Ḥasan al-Maqāniʿī:] I was in Baghdad, alone in an orchard belonging to a friend, when I saw two men—one old, one young—dressed in ragged hair shirts. I greeted them and said, “You look like strangers here.” 83.9

"Kami datang," kata mereka. "Kami dari Pegunungan Lukkām479 dan kami di sini untuk pemakaman Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. Setiap wali Allah telah datang untuk menyaksikannya." [Al-Sulamī:] Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dāraquṭnī dan saya menghadiri pemakaman Abū l-Fatḥ al-Qawwās sang zahid. Melihat kerumunan itu, al-Dāraquṭnī berkata, "Aku pernah mendengar Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād al-Qaṭṭān berkata bahwa ia mendengar ʿAbd Allāh, putra Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, berkata bahwa ia mendengar ayahnya berkata: 'Katakanlah kepada para pelaku bid'ah bahwa jika kita membandingkan pemakaman, kitalah yang menang.'" 83.10

“We are,” they said. “We’re from the Lukkām Mountains479 and we’re here for Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal’s funeral. Every one of God’s friends has come to see it.” [Al-Sulamī:] Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dāraquṭnī and I attended the funeral of Abū l-Fatḥ al-Qawwās the renunciant. Seeing the crowd, al-Dāraquṭnī said, “I’ve heard Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād al-Qaṭṭān say that he heard ʿAbd Allāh, son of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, say that he heard his father say: ‘Tell the innovators that if we compare funerals, we win.’” 83.10