[Al-Marrūdhī:] 我从塔尔苏斯的一个人那里听到这个。881

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

我来自也门，我有一个女儿曾被附身。我请来了一些驱魔人，他们驱走了她体内的jinn（精灵），并让它承诺不再回来。但一年之后，它又回来了。

“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.

“‘你不是答应过不再回来吗？’我问道。”

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

“‘我做过。’那精灵说，‘但伊拉克有一位名叫艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒的人去世了，所有的精灵——除了像我这样的恶魔之外——都去为他祈祷了。我不会再回来了。’” “他再也没有回来。”这个故事还有另一个版本流传至今。

“‘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:] 我在也门的时候，一个人告诉我，他的女儿被恶魔附身了。于是我带他去找我们也门的一位驱魔人，那人赶走了她体内的jinn，并让它承诺不再回来。可是大约六个月后，她的父亲又来找我，说恶魔已经回来了。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

“回去找那位驱魔师吧，”我说。

“Go back to the exorcist,” I said.

于是他回去了。驱魔者把那个精灵引了出来，并让它开口说话。

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

“真丢人！”驱魔师说，“你不是答应过不再缠着她吗？” 精灵说：“我是答应过。可我们听说艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒去世了。所有虔诚的精灵都去悼念他了，像我这样的恶魔也只好跟在后面。” [阿尔-赫拉勒：] 艾哈迈德·伊本·穆罕默德·伊本·马赫穆德告诉我如下内容：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

我从信德返回的途中乘船。有一次夜里我醒来，听见从海上传来一个声音在呼唤："信士，真主的仆人，艾哈迈德·本·罕百勒去世了！""这是什么？"我问船上的另一个人。 Note: the original says "God", so per the rules I should write the Chinese word for God rather than "Allah". Correcting that: 我从信德返回的途中乘船。有一次夜里我醒来，听见从海上传来一个声音在呼唤："艾哈迈德·本·罕百勒，神的忠仆，已经去世了！""这是什么？"我问船上的另一个人。

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.

“那是一个善良的精灵。”后来我们才得知，艾哈迈德就在那天夜里去世了。

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

[Al-Khallāl:] 我还听说，艾布·祖尔阿说，在他的家乡呼罗珊，jinn（精灵）在艾哈迈德去世的四十天前就宣告了他的死讯。

[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.

我还听到艾哈迈德的儿子萨利哈说："我父亲去世四十天后，在所有人都入睡之后，我的家人说他们听到从我父亲的房子里传来一阵啜泣声，那声音不像任何人类会发出的声音。"

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.”