[Ṣāliḥ:] Baba yangu alipofariki, mitaa ilijaa waombolezaji. Nilituma ujumbe kwamba ningetoa mwili wake nje baada ya sala ya alasiri kumalizika. 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

Ibn Ṭāhir alimtuma kwetu chamberlain wake Muẓaffar akiwa na mafungu ya nguo, manukato, na ujumbe: "Amir anatuma salamu zake na anasema, 'Ninafanya kile ambacho Amirul-Mu'minin angefanya kama angekuwa hapa.'" Nilisema, "Rudisha salamu na umwambie kwamba wakati Aḥmad alipokuwa hai, alikuwa ameepushwa kufanya chochote alichokichukia. Sitamfanyia sasa, baada ya kufa kwake, chochote kinachochukiza." "Mfunge kwa nguo hii," alijibu, "kisha weka kitu kingine juu yake." Nilirudia nilichokuwa nimesema.

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.

Mjakazi wa baba yangu alikuwa amesokota kipande cha nguo cha mikono kumi, chenye thamani ya dirham ishirini na nane, ili kitumike kushona mashati mawili. Kutoka humo tulikata vipande viwili vya kumfunika navyo.

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.

Tukichukua kipande kingine kutoka kwa Fūrān; tulikuwa na tabaka tatu za kitambaa cha kufunga mwili.478 Tulinunua manukato ya kutia maiti harufu wenyewe. Mshirika wetu mmoja, ambaye alikuwa mtengenezaji wa manukato, aliuliza kama angeweza kututumia baadhi ya manukato yake, lakini sikumruhusu.

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.

Wakati huo, mtu fulani alikuwa amechukua chupa yetu moja na kumimina maji ndani yake. Nilimwambia wamwambie Fūrān anunue kiriba na ajaze ile chupa ambayo baba yangu alikuwa akinywea nayo, kwa kuwa yeye hangechukua chochote kutoka nyumbani kwetu kamwe.

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.

Mwili ulipokwisha kuoshwa, tulauufunika kwenye sanda huku kukiwa na takriban watu mia moja wa ukoo wa Hāshim wakitazama. Mara tu tulipoliweka mwili juu ya kitanda cha kubebea, wakaanza kumbusu kwenye paji la uso.

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:] Nilipokuwa nikijiandaa kumwosha, watu wa kabila la Hāshim walifika kwa wingi hadi nyumba ikajaa. Kwa hiyo tulimpeleka katika chumba chake, tukashusha pazia la mlango, na kumfunika kwa kitambaa wakati tukiendelea na kazi. Hakuna mtu wa nje aliyekuwepo wakati wa kuuosha mwili. Kazi hiyo ilipomalizika, tulijiandaa kumvisha sanda, lakini watu wa Hāshim walitusukuma pembeni, wakilia, wakiwasogeza watoto wao mbele ya mwili, na kuubusu. Hatimaye tulimweka juu ya jeneza na kumfunga nalo kwa vipande vya kitambaa cha kilemba. Ibn Ṭāhir alikuwa ametuma sanda kadhaa, lakini mimi nilizirudisha. Mjomba wake alimwambia mjumbe, "Hata hakumruhusu mtumwa wangu amwepushie upepo." Mtu mwingine alisema, "Aliomba avishwe sanda katika nguo zake mwenyewe." 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

Mwishowe tulimkafini kwa kipande cha nguo ya Marawī ambacho alikuwa amepanga kutengenezea nguo fulani. Tukaongeza kipande kingine juu yake, na hivyo tukamfunga kwa tabaka tatu za nguo.

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.