[Al-Haytham ibn Khalaf:] Tulimzika Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal mwaka wa 241, baada ya sala ya alasiri. Sikuwahi kuona watu wengi namna hii mahali pamoja. 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:] Nimeshuhudia misimu arobaini ya Hija, lakini sijawahi kuona watu wengi kama walivyokuwa wakati huo. 83.2

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

[Al-Warrāq:] Hatujawahi kusikia kuwa watu zaidi wamewahi kukusanyika mahali pamoja, iwe katika Zama za Ujinga au katika Zama za Uislamu. Tumesikia hata kwamba eneo hilo lilipimwa na kufanywa makadirio sahihi ya idadi ya watu waliokuwepo. Ilifikia takriban watu milioni moja, pamoja na wanawake kama sitini elfu ambao nilihesabu wakitazama kutoka kwenye kuta.

[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.

Watu walikuwa wamefungua milango ya nyumba zao kando ya mitaa yote na vichochoro kwa yeyote aliyetaka kuingia na kutawadha. Watu pia walinunua maji mengi ya kunywa. 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 alitusimulia kwamba alihudhuria mazishi ya 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

Kulikuwa na watu waliopangwa mstari kuanzia uwanjani hadi kwenye daraja la Bāb al-Qaṭīʿah.

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

"Makadirio niliyoyasikia yalikuwa ya wanaume laki nane na wanawake elfu sitini." [Mūsā ibn Hārūn:] Maeneo tambarare ambako watu walisimama baada ya Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal kufariki yalipimwa, na idadi ya watu waliohudhuria ilihesabiwa kuwa zaidi ya laki sita, bila kuhesabu wale waliokuwa pembeni, kando kando, juu ya paa, na waliotawanyika huku na kule, ambao kama wangehesabiwa, jumla ingefikia zaidi ya milioni moja. 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:] Isipokuwa kwa msafara fulani wa mazishi uliotokea miongoni mwa Wana wa Israeli, hatujawahi kusikia kwamba kumewahi kukusanyika Waislamu wengi mahali pamoja kuliko walivyokusanyika kwenye msafara wa mazishi wa 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?:] Amiri wa Waumini alituma watu ishirini kukadiria idadi ya watu waliosali juu ya Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. Walihesabu 1,300,000, pamoja na watu waliokuwa kwenye boti. 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:] Nilisikia kwamba al-Mutawakkil aliamuru ufanyike upimaji wa eneo ambalo watu walisimama wakati sala ya jeneza iliposwaliwa kwa ajili ya Aḥmad. Ikabainika kwamba palikuwa na nafasi ya watu 2,500,000. 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:] Nilikuwa Baghdad, peke yangu katika bustani ya rafiki yangu, nilipoona watu wawili—mmoja mzee, mwingine kijana—wamevaa nguo chakavu za nywele. Niliwasalimu na kusema, "Mnaonekana kama wageni hapa." 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

"Sisi ni," wakasema. "Sisi tunatoka Milima ya Lukkām479, na tumekuja kwa ajili ya mazishi ya Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. Kila mmoja wa marafiki wa Mwenyezi Mungu amekuja kuhudhuria." [Al-Sulamī:] Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dāraquṭnī na mimi tulihudhuria mazishi ya Abū l-Fatḥ al-Qawwās, mcha Mungu aliyejitenga na dunia. Alipoona umati wa watu, al-Dāraquṭnī alisema, "Nimemsikia Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād al-Qaṭṭān akisema kwamba alimsikia ʿAbd Allāh, mwana wa Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, akisema kwamba alimsikia baba yake akisema: 'Waambieni wabunifu wa mambo mapya kwamba tukilinganisha mazishi, sisi ndio tunashinda.'" 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