[Ṣāliḥ:] Apabila ayah saya meninggal dunia, jalan-jalan dipenuhi dengan para pelayat. Saya menyampaikan pesan bahawa saya akan mengeluarkan jenazahnya selepas solat Asar selesai. 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

Ibnu Ṭāhir mengutus kepada kami chamberlain-nya, Muẓaffar, dengan beberapa gulung kain, wangi-wangian, dan sebuah pesan: "Sang emir menyampaikan salamnya dan berkata, 'Aku melakukan apa yang akan dilakukan oleh Amirul Mukminin seandainya dia ada di sini.'" Aku berkata, "Balaslah salamnya dan katakan kepadanya bahwa ketika Aḥmad masih hidup, dia dibebaskan dari melakukan apa pun yang dia benci. Aku tidak akan membebankan sesuatu yang dibencinya kepadanya sekarang setelah dia wafat." "Bungkuslah dia dengan kain ini," jawabnya, "dan letakkan sesuatu yang lain di atasnya." Aku mengulangi apa yang telah kukatakan.

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.

Hamba perempuan milik ayah saya telah memintal sehelai kain sepanjang sepuluh hasta yang bernilai dua puluh lapan dirham, untuk dijadikan dua helai baju. Daripadanya kami memotong dua helai kain untuk membungkusnya.

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.

Mengambil sehelai lagi dari Fūrān, kami mempunyai tiga lapis kain untuk membalut jenazah.478 Kami membeli wangi-wangian itu sendiri. Seorang rakan kami yang merupakan pembuat minyak wangi bertanya sama ada dia boleh menghantar sebahagian daripada wangiannya kepada kami, tetapi saya tidak membenarkannya.

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.

Sementara itu, seseorang telah mengambil sebuah tempayan milik kami dan menuangkan air ke dalamnya. Saya menyuruh mereka memberitahu Fūrān supaya membeli kantung kulit air dan mengisi tempayan yang biasa diminum oleh ayah saya, kerana beliau tidak akan mengambil apa-apa dari rumah-rumah kami.

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.

Setelah jenazah dimandikan, kami membungkusnya dengan kain kafan sementara beberapa ratus orang dari kalangan Bani Hāshim menyaksikan. Sebaik sahaja kami meletakkan jenazah di atas usungan, mereka mula mencium dahinya.

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:] Ketika saya sedang bersiap untuk memandikannya, ramai kaum Hāshim tiba sehingga memenuhi rumah. Maka kami membawanya ke dalam bilik-biliknya, melabuhkan tirai pintu, dan menutupinya dengan kain semasa kami bekerja. Tiada orang luar yang hadir untuk memandikan jenazah. Apabila itu selesai, kami bersedia untuk mengkafankannya, tetapi kaum Hāshim menolak kami ke tepi sambil menangis, menolak anak-anak mereka ke hadapan melangkahi jasadnya, dan mengucupnya. Akhirnya kami dapat meletakkannya di atas usungan dan mengikatnya padanya menggunakan jalur kain serban. Ibn Ṭāhir telah menghantar beberapa kain kafan, tetapi saya memulangkannya. Bapa saudaranya berkata kepada utusan itu, "Dia tidak membenarkan walaupun hamba saya mengipasnya." Seorang lain berkata, "Dia meminta untuk dikafankan dengan pakaiannya sendiri." 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

Akhirnya kami mengafaninya dengan sehelai kain Marawī yang dia sendiri telah merancang untuk dijadikan pakaian. Kami menambah sehelai lagi kepadanya, lalu membalutnya dengan tiga lapis kain.

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.