she was evidently sick and weak and withered until she died a year after him on the day he completed a year underground. her mother and all her slave girls told me about her and she used to say after him nothing strengthens my patience and sustains my life in this world for a single hour after his death except my joy and my certainty that no woman will ever embrace him. i have been assured of this which i feared nothing else and my greatest hope today is to join him. there was no woman before her or with her other than her and she also had no other than him and it was as she had decreed. may god forgive her and be pleased with her.
بان عنها من السقم الدخيل والمرض والذبول إلى أن ماتت بعده بعام في اليوم الذي أكمل هو فيه تحت الأرض عاما؛ ولقد أخبرتني عنها أمها وجميع جواريها أنها كانت تقول بعده ما يقوي صبري ويمسك رمقي في الدنيا ساعة واحدة بعد وفاته إلا سروري وتيقني أنه لا يضمه وامرأة مضجع أبدا، فقد أمنت هذا الذي ما كنت أتخوف غيره، وأعظم آمالي اليوم اللحاق به. ولم يكن قبلها ولا معها امرأة غيرها، وهي كذلك لم يكن لها غيره، فكان كما قدرت، غفر الله لها ورضي عنها.