Ahmadning farzandlari shuni xabar qilishdiki, ko‘plab odamlar, jumladan o‘z kimliklarini sir tutgan ba’zi solih kishilar, ta’ziya bildirish uchun kelishgan. Mavzuga ortiqcha vaqt sarflamasdan, eng mashhur rivoyatlardan bir nechtasini keltiraman. 89.1

Aḥmad’s children reported that many people, including certain righteous men who had kept their identities a secret, came to offer their condolences. Without spending too much time on the subject, I will present a few of the more famous accounts. 89.1

[Ibn Abī Ḥātim:] Ahmadning o‘g‘li Solih bizga rivoyat qilib aytdi: 89.2

[Ibn Abī Ḥātim:] We heard Aḥmad’s son Ṣāliḥ report: 89.2

Otamdan vafot etganidan bir necha kun o‘tib, Muhammad ibn Abdulloh ibn Tohir al-Mutavakkildan maktub oldi, unda uni bizga taziya bildirishga va kitoblarni olib ketishga buyurilgan edi. Lekin men avval kitoblarni yig‘ib oldim va unga dedim: “Biz eshitgan barcha rivoyatlar shu yerda. Agar ularni xohlasangiz, shu yerda qolib, ko‘chirib oling.”482

A few days after my father died, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir received a letter from al-Mutawakkil ordering him to pay us a visit of condolence and to carry off the books. But I gathered up the books first and told him, “All of the reports we’ve ever heard are in here. If you want them, stay here and copy them.”482

“Men xalifaga aytaman,” dedi u.

“I’ll tell the caliph,” he said.

[Ibn Abī Ḥātim:] Ṣāliḥ kept putting him off, and the books stayed in our hands — alhamdulillah, shukr God! Ammo, Xudoga shukr! [Ṣāliḥ:] Do‘stlarimdan biri menga ta’ziya xati yozdi: 89.3

[Ibn Abī Ḥātim:] Ṣāliḥ kept putting him off and the books stayed in our hands, thank God! [Ṣāliḥ:] One of my friends wrote me this letter of condolence: 89.3

Mehribon va rahmli Alloh nomi bilan. Qudratli va ulug' Alloh, mehribon va rahmli Zot, o'limni barcha odamzotga teng qilib belgilagan, Uning bandalarini belgilangan muddat bilan cheklab qo'ygan, to taqdir ularning hammasini o'z domiga tortguncha. Hozir Alloh taolo o'z huzuriga chaqirgan Abu Abdulloh — Alloh unga rahm qilsin! — Alloh taoloning hukmiga bo'ysunmoqda. U Allohning chaqiruvini ixlos bilan qabul qilib, o'zi doimo bo'lganidek, nuqsonsiz, pok va benuqson, sunnatga sobit, xatosiz va to'g'ri yo'lga yo'llovchi holda, yaxshi hidoyat yo'lidan og'maydigan, havoyi istaklarga berilmaydigan va qiyinchiliklar oldida qo'rqmaydigan holda keldi, to Alloh uni o'ziga yaqin qilguncha. Barcha uning erishgan ne'matiga intilsin. Uni yo'qotish yurakni tilka-pora qiladigan og'ir qayg'uga soladi, lekin men sizni va bu xatni o'qiydigan boshqa har bir musulmonni Allohning mulohaza qiluvchilarga, sabr qiluvchilarga va Alloh yaratgan barcha narsalar uchun belgilagan taqdirga ixlos bilan bo'ysunuvchilarga va'da qilgan ne'mat, rahmat va alomatlari bilan tasalli beraman. Eslatib o'taman, u bizni eng yaxshi tarzda tark etdi: aql-idrokli holda, Allohning hidoyatiga ishongan holda va jasorati va qat'iyatida sarsaga uchramagan holda. Dunyo uning ortidan quvdi, lekin u unga e'tibor bermadi va Alloh uchun turganida hech qanday malomatga parvo qilmadi; uning vafoti islom yuragida chuqur, tuzalmas yara qoldirdi.

In the name of God, full of compassion, ever-compassionate God, mighty and glorious, has decreed that death deal impartially with humankind, dooming His creatures to a finite span until fate comes to claim them all. Bowing now to God’s decree is Abū ʿAbd Allāh—may God have mercy on him!—whom He has summoned to Himself. Accepting God’s welcome with a willing heart, he came faultless as always, unsullied, and immaculate, firm in tradition, inerrant, and guiding aright, unswerving from the path of good guidance, unswayed by caprice, and dauntless in adversity, until God drew him close to Himself. Let all aspire to the grace that he has gained; and though losing him brings a wrenching grief that bites deep into the heart, and I console you and any other Muslim who reads this letter by reminding you of God’s promised blessings, mercies, and signs vouchsafed to those who ponder well, suffer long, and submit with good grace to the fate God has decreed for all things He has made. I remind you that he left us in the best possible way: present in mind, confident of God’s guidance, and unshaken in his courage and resolve. The world pursued him but he spurned it, and he brooked no rebuke when he stood up for God; his passing leaves a ragged scar on the heart of Islam.

Men Allohga, ko'p in'om-ehsonlar beruvchi Zotga, iltijo qilamanki, Muhammad ﷺ — Uning bandasi va elchisi — ga rahmat yog'dirsin; va Ahmadga Uning O'z xizmatiga yaratgan do'stlarining har biriga bergan mukofotidan kam bo'lmagan ajr bersin. Uni daraja jihatidan yuksaltirsin, martabasini ulug'lasin va uni payg'ambarlar, siddiqlar, shahidlar va solihlar qatoriga joylashtirsin — ular qanday yaxshi hamrohlar! Men Allohdan sizga kuch, kuchlilarga va'da qilingan mukofotni berishini so'rayman; sizga imonini amalda ado etganlarga va'da qilingan mukofotni keltiradigan o'sha yaqinlikni ham ato etishini so'rayman. Uning o'zi barcha baraka manbai, barcha yaxshiliklarni taqsimlovchi va Uchun hech narsa mumkin bo'lmagan Zotdir, deb so'rayman.

I pray to God, who gives freely of His bounty, to bless Muḥammad, His servant and Emissary; and to grant Aḥmad no lesser reward than that He grants to any of the allies He has created to serve Him. May He raise him in rank, exalt him in standing, and seat him among the prophets, the truth-tellers, the martyrs, and the saints—goodly companions all! I ask God to give you strength, and the reward promised to the strong; and grant you that certainty that confers the reward promised to those who live out their faith. I ask Him, for He is the fount of all blessing, the dispenser of all good things, and the One for whom nothing is impossible.

[Al-Ṣūfī:] Abū ʿAbd Allāh'ni dafn etgan kecha, bizning olimlarimizdan biri — mehribon va ilmli odam, Abū Ja'far ismli kishi menga: "Bugun kimni dafn qildik, bilasizmi?" deb so'radi. 89.4

[Al-Ṣūfī:] The night we buried Abū ʿAbd Allāh, one of our scholars—a kindly, learned man named Abū Jaʿfar—asked me, “Do you know who was buried today?” 89.4

"Kim?" "Beshdan oltinchisi." "Bu nimani anglatadi?" "Birinchisi — Abu Bakr as-Siddiq," dedi u. "Ikkinchisi esa Umar ibn al-Xattob edi.

“Who?” “The sixth of five.” “What do you mean?” “The first is Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq,” he said. “The second was ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.

ʿUsmon ibn ʿAffon uchinchi, ʿAli ibn Abu Tolib to‘rtinchi, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbdulaziz beshinchi, endi esa bizda oltinchi bor: Ahmad ibn Hanbal.” Uning bu gapini qadrladim. Uning nazarda tutgani shu ediki, har bir inson o‘z davrining eng buyugi edi.

ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān was the third, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib the fourth, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al- ʿAzīz the fifth, and now we have a sixth: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.” I appreciated his saying that. What he meant was that each man was the greatest in his own time.