[ʿAbd Allāh:] Baba yangu alifanya Hija tano: tatu kwa miguu na mbili akipanda mnyama. Katika baadhi yake alitumia dirham ishirini tu. 59.1

[ʿAbd Allāh:] My father made five pilgrimages: three on foot and two riding. On some of them he spent only twenty dirhams. 59.1

[Ṣāliḥ:] Nilimsikia baba yangu akisema, "Nimefanya hija tano, tatu kati yake nikiwa kwa miguu. Katika mojawapo nilitumia dirham thelathini tu." 59.2

[Ṣāliḥ:] I heard my father say, “I made five pilgrimages, three of them on foot. On one of them I spent only thirty dirhams.” 59.2

[Al-Marrūdhī:] Aḥmad aliniambia mara moja, "Kuna watu wanaoweza kufika kutoka Makka hadi Baghdad kwa dirham kumi na nne tu." 59.3

[Al-Marrūdhī:] Aḥmad once said to me, “Some people can make it from Mecca back to Baghdad on only fourteen dirhams.” 59.3

"Kama nani?" niliuliza.

“Like who?” I asked.