[Al-Haytham ibn Khalaf:] Kami mengebumikan Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal pada tahun 241, selepas solat Asar. Saya tidak pernah melihat begitu ramai orang 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:] Saya telah menyaksikan empat puluh kali haji, tetapi tidak pernah saya melihat ramai orang seperti pada waktu itu. 83.2

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

[Al-Warrāq:] Kami tidak pernah mendengar tentang lebih ramai orang yang berkumpul di satu tempat, sama ada pada Zaman Jahiliyyah mahupun pada Zaman Islam. Kami juga pernah mendengar bahawa tempat itu telah diukur dan satu anggaran yang tepat dibuat mengenai bilangan orang di sana. Jumlahnya kira-kira sejuta, ditambah dengan kira-kira enam puluh ribu wanita yang saya kira sedang memerhati dari dinding.

[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 ramai telah membuka pintu-pintu rumah di sepanjang jalan dan lorong kepada sesiapa sahaja yang ingin masuk dan berwuduk. Orang ramai juga membeli air minuman dalam kuantiti yang banyak. 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 memberitahu kami bahawa dia hadir pada pengebumian 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

Terdapat orang-orang yang berbaris dari dataran sehingga ke jambatan di Bāb al-Qaṭīʿah.

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

"Angka yang saya dengar ialah lapan ratus ribu lelaki dan enam puluh ribu wanita." [Mūsā ibn Hārūn:] Kawasan tanah rata tempat orang-orang berdiri selepas Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal wafat telah diukur, dan bilangan orang yang hadir dikira melebihi enam ratus ribu, tidak termasuk mereka yang berada di sisi, di pinggir-pinggir, di atas bumbung, dan yang bertaburan di sekeliling; jika mereka turut dikira, jumlahnya akan melebihi 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 daripada satu pengebumian tertentu yang berlaku di kalangan Bani Israil, kami tidak pernah mendengar tentang lebih ramai orang Islam berkumpul di satu tempat berbanding dengan perarakan pengebumian Ibn Ḥanbal. 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 menganggarkan berapa ramai orang yang menunaikan solat jenazah ke atas Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. Mereka mengira 1,300,000 orang, ditambah dengan orang-orang yang berada di atas bot. 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 bahawa al-Mutawakkil memerintahkan agar kawasan tempat orang-orang berdiri ketika solat jenazah untuk Aḥmad diukur. Didapati ruang itu mampu memuatkan 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, bersendirian di sebuah kebun milik seorang sahabat, apabila saya melihat dua orang lelaki—seorang tua, seorang muda—memakai pakaian rambut yang koyak. Saya memberi salam kepada mereka dan berkata, “Kamu berdua kelihatan 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 Pergunungan Lukkām479 dan kami di sini untuk pengebumian Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. Setiap kekasih Allah telah datang untuk menyaksikannya." [Al-Sulamī:] Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dāraquṭnī dan saya menghadiri pengebumian Abū l-Fatḥ al-Qawwās sang zahid. Melihat orang ramai itu, al-Dāraquṭnī berkata, "Saya pernah mendengar Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād al-Qaṭṭān berkata bahawa beliau mendengar ʿAbd Allāh, anak Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, berkata bahawa beliau mendengar bapanya berkata: 'Beritahu golongan pembuat bidaah bahawa jika kita membandingkan pengebumian, 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