Ahmad, Alloh unga rahm qilsin, Husn ismli cho'riyani sotib oldi. 63.1

Aḥmad, God have mercy on him, bought a concubine named Ḥusn. 63.1

[Abū Yūsuf ibn Bukhtān:] Aḥmad bizdan o‘sha cho‘rini sotib olib berishimizni so‘raganida, Fūrān va men bordik. Biz ketayotganimizda Aḥmad ortimdan yetib keldi va dedi: “Uning ozgina go‘shti bo‘lishiga ishonch hosil qiling.” 63.2

[Abū Yūsuf ibn Bukhtān:] When Aḥmad asked us to buy the girl for him, Fūrān and I went. As we were leaving, Aḥmad came after me and said, “Make sure she’s got some meat on her.” 63.2

[Zuhayr:] ʿAbd Allāh onasi vafot etgach, Ahmad Husnni sotib oldi. U unga Umm ʿAliyni tug'di, uning ismi Zaynab edi. Keyinroq u al-Hasan va al-Husaynni tug'di, ular egizak edilar, ammo tug'ilganlaridan ko'p o'tmay vafot etdilar. So'ngra u Muhammad va al-Hasanni tug'di, ular qirq yoshgacha yashadilar. Ulardan keyin u Sa'idni tug'di. 63.3

[Zuhayr:] When ʿAbd Allāh’s mother died, Aḥmad bought Ḥusn. She bore him Umm ʿAlī, whose name was Zaynab. Later she bore al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn, who were twins, but they died soon after they were born. Then she bore Muḥammad and al-Ḥasan, who lived till about forty. After them she bore Saʿīd. 63.3

[Husn:] Men ustozimdan oyoq halqalarimdan birini sotishim kerakmi, deb so'radim. U menga rostdan shuni xohlayapmanmi, deb so'radi va men xohlayman, dedim. 63.4

[Ḥusn:] I asked my master whether I should sell one of my anklets. He asked if I really meant it, and I said I did. 63.4

«Alhamdulillah» demay, u dedi, «sizni bu tanlovga yo‘naltirgan Xudoga hamd bo‘lsin». Shunda men bilakuzukni Solih o‘g‘li Abu l-Hasanga berdim, u uni sakkiz yarim dinorga sotdi. Men homilador bo‘lganimda, xo‘jayinim pulni tarqatib yubordi. Hasanni dunyoga keltirganimda, u Karrāmaga — bizga xizmat qilib yurgan qari ayolga — bir dirham berdi va uni qo‘shnimiz, qassob Ibn Shujāʿning oldiga borib, bu pulni olib bosh sotib olishini aytishga yubordi. U bosh sotib oldi, ayol uni uyga olib keldi va biz uni yedik.

“Praise God,” he said, “who led you to make this choice.” So I gave the anklet to Ṣāliḥ’s son Abū l-Ḥasan, who sold it for eight-and-a-half dinars. When I got pregnant, my master distributed the money. When I had Ḥasan, he gave a dirham to Karrāmah—an old woman who served us—and told her to go to Ibn Shujāʿ—a neighbor of ours who was a butcher—and tell him to take it and buy a head.318 He bought the head, she brought it home, and we ate it.

"Husn," dedi u menga, "menda qolgan narsa faqat shu bir dirham, va bu bugun sen mendan oladigan yagona kun."319

“Ḥusn,” he said to me, “all I have left is this dirham, and this is the only day you’ll get anything from me.”319

Uyda pul bo'lmagan kunlarda ustozim butun kun davomida xursand bo'lardi.

Whenever there was no money in the house my master was happy all day.

Bir kuni u kirib, hijomat qilish kerakligini, lekin pulining yo'qligini aytdi. Shunda men o'z idishimga bordim, u yerda saqlab qo'ygan yarim mann319 ip-matoni oldim va uni bir to'quvchiga yubordim; u uni to'rt dirhamga sotdi. Men yarim dirhamni go'shtga sarfladim, u esa bir dirhamni hijomatga sarfladi. Yana bir dirhamga xushbo'y narsa sotib oldim.

One day he came in and said he needed a cupping but had no money. So I went to my jar, took out half a mann320 of weaving I kept there, and sent it out to one of the weavers, who sold it for four dirhams. I spent half a dirham on meat, and he spent a dirham on the cupping. I also bought some perfume for another dirham.

Master, when my master went out to Samarra, I wove a length of soft cloth and used it to make a beautiful robe. When he came back I brought out the robe—this was after I'd been paid fifteen dirhams for it out of the rental income—but when he saw it he said, "I don't want it." "Master," I said, "I have other things I made from different cotton." So I gave the robe to Fūrān, who sold it for forty-two dirhams. With that I bought some cotton and wove it into a large gown. When I told Aḥmad, he said, "Don't cut— leave it be!" He ended up using it as his shroud and they wrapped him up in it. I took out the coarse material and he cut it.322

When my master went out to Samarra, I wove a length of soft cloth and used it to make a beautiful robe. When he came back I brought out the robe—this was after I’d been paid fifteen dirhams for it out of the rental income321—but when he saw it he said, “I don’t want it.” “Master,” I said, “I have other things I made from different cotton.” So I gave the robe to Fūrān, who sold it for forty-two dirhams. With that I bought some cotton and wove it into a large gown. When I told Aḥmad, he said, “Don’t cut— leave it be!” He ended up using it as his shroud and they wrapped him up in it. I took out the coarse material and he cut it.322

Bir safar u oxirida kasal bo'lganida men unga biror narsa pishirib berdim.

Once when he was sick at the end I baked something for him.

"Buni qayerda pishirgansiz?" — deb so‘radi u.

“Where did you bake this?” he asked.

«Abdulloh huzurida», dedim.

“At ʿAbd Allāh’s,” I said.

“Olib keting”, dedi u va uni yeyishdan bosh tortdi.

“Take it away,” he said, and refused to eat it.

Bizga ma'lum bo'lishicha, Ahmad faqat ikki ayolga uylangan — Solih onasi va Abdulloh onasiga — va faqat bitta cho'risi bo'lgan, uning rivoyatlarini biz keltirdik. Uning ismi Husn edi. Biroq, "Ahmadning fazilatlari" kitobida[323] Abu l-Husayn Ahmad ibn Ja'far ibn al-Munodiy rivoyat qilishicha, Ahmad xotinidan ruxsat so'rab, Payg'ambar ﷺ sunnatiga ergashish maqsadida cho'ri sotib olmoqchi bo'lgan. Xotini ruxsat bergan va u arzon bir qizni sotib olib, uni Payg'ambar ﷺ sunnatiga ko'ra Rayhona deb atagan. Agar bu to'g'ri bo'lsa, u ikkita cho'ri sotib olgan bo'lishi kerak, ulardan biri xotini hayotligida sotib olingan.

[The author:] As far as we know, Aḥmad married only two women—Ṣāliḥ’s mother and ʿAbd Allāh’s—and had only the one concubine whose reports we have cited. Her name is Ḥusn. Yet, in his Virtues of Aḥmad,323 Abū l-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Munādī reports that Aḥmad asked his wife for permission to buy a concubine in order to emulate the practice of the Prophet. She gave her permission and he bought an inexpensive girl he named Rayḥānah, following the sunnah of the Prophet. If this is right, he must have bought two slaves, one during his wife’s lifetime.

Lekin bilgan narsa faqat Allohdir! 324 63. Wait: the rule says the Uzbek word for God, never "Allah". Uzbek word for God is "Xudo". Correction: Lekin eng yaxshi biluvchi faqat Xudodir! 324 63.5

But God alone knows best!324 63.5