[Al-Marrūdhī:] Men Tarsusda bir kishidan shuni eshitdim. 88.1

[Al-Marrūdhī:] I heard this from a man in Tarsus. 88.1

"Men Yamandanman, va menda bir qizim bor edi, u jin tegib qolgan edi. Men bir nechta ruqya qiluvchilarni chaqirdim, ular uning jinnini haydab chiqarishdi va u qaytmasligiga va'da berdi. Lekin bir yil o'tgach, u yana qaytib keldi."

“I’m from Yemen, and I have a daughter who was possessed. I brought in some exorcists who drove out her jinni and made it promise not to return. But then a year later it came back.

"Qaytib kelmaslikka va’da bermagan eding-mi?" — deb so‘radim.

“‘Didn’t you promise not to come back?’ I asked.

“Ha,” dedi jin. “Lekin Iroqda Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal ismli bir kishi vafot etdi va barcha jinlar — mendek shaytonlardan tashqari — uning janozasini o‘qish uchun ketishdi. Lekin men boshqa qaytib kelmayman.” Va u boshqa qaytib kelmadi. Bu hikoya boshqa rivoyatda ham bizgacha yetib kelgan.

“‘I did,’ said the jinni. ‘But a man named Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal has died in Iraq and all the jinns—except for the demons, like me—have gone to pray over him. But I won’t be back again.’ “He never returned.” This story has also come down to us in another telling.

[Abū Muḥammad al-Yamānī:] Yamanda bo‘lganimda bir kishi menga qizini jin urganini aytdi. Shuning uchun men uni yamanlik ruqyachilarimizdan biriga olib bordim. U qizning ichidagi jinni haydab chiqardi va u qaytib kelmasligini va'da qildi. Ammo taxminan olti oy o‘tgach, qizning otasi oldimga kelib, jinning yana qaytib kelganini aytdi. 88.2

[Abū Muḥammad al-Yamānī:] When I was in Yemen, a man told me that his daughter had been possessed by a demon. So I took him to one of our Yemeni exorcists, who drove out her jinni and made it promise not to return. But then about six months later her father came to me and said the demon had returned. 88.2

"Ruhoniyga qaytib bor," dedim.

“Go back to the exorcist,” I said.

U shunda u orqaga qaytdi. Ruqyachi jinni­ni chiqarib oldi va uni gapirtirdi.

So he went back. The exorcist drew out the jinni and got it talking.

“Uyat bo‘lsin senga!” dedi ruhoniy. “Axir uni tinch qo‘yishga va'da bermaganmidingiz?” “Berganman”, dedi jinn. “Ammo eshitdikki, Ahmad ibn Hanbal vafot etibdi. Barcha solih jinnlar uni yod etish uchun ketishgan, biz kabi shaytonlar esa ularning ortidan ergashib ketayapmiz.” [Al-Xallol:] Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud menga quyidagilarni aytib berdi: 88.3

“Shame on you!” said the exorcist. “Didn’t you promise to leave her alone?” “I did,” said the jinni. “But we’ve heard that Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal is dead. All the righteous jinns have gone to mourn him, and the demons like me are tagging along behind.” [Al-Khallāl:] Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd told me the following: 88.3

Men Sind'dan kemaga o'tirib qaytayotgan edim. Bir payt tunda uyg'onib ketdim va dengizdan bir ovoz eshitdim: "Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Allohning sadoqatli bandasi, vafot etdi!" "Bu nima edi?" deb kemadagi boshqalardan birdan so'radim.

I was on my way back from Sind on board ship. At one point I woke up in the night and heard a voice calling from the sea, “Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, the faithful servant of God, is dead!” “What was that?” I asked one of the others on board.

"Bu solih jinn edi." Keyinchalik ma'lum bo'ldiki, o'sha kecha Ahmad vafot etgan edi.

“That was a righteous jinni.” We later learned that Aḥmad had died that night.

[Al-Khallāl:] Shuningdek, eshitdim, Abu Zur'a aytgan ekan: uning yurtida, Xurosonda, Ahmadning o'limini jinlar uning vafotidan qirq kun oldin e'lon qilishgan.

[Al-Khallāl:] I also heard that Abū Zurʿah said that where he was from in Khurasan, the jinns announced Aḥmad’s death forty days before it happened.

Men Aḥmadning o‘g‘li Ṣāliḥning shunday deganini ham eshitdim: “Otam vafot etganidan qirq kun o‘tgach, hamma uxlab bo‘lgandan keyin, oilam otamning uyidan odam hech qachon chiqarmaydigan, o‘ksik-o‘ksik yig‘i tovushini eshitganini aytdi.”

I also heard Aḥmad’s son Ṣāliḥ say, “Forty days after my father died, after everyone had gone to bed, my family said they heard a sobbing, unlike any sound a human would make, coming from my father’s house.”