Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 17.3.7

17.3.7

But on the evening of the day in which he was to depart this life, he asked what day of the week would be to-morrow, and being answered, it would be Monday, he expressed his joy and said: a pleasing day! I will be joined to my love. And whether he gave directions accordingly, or that his people paid a regard to his attachment to the young Prince, it is certain that he was entombed close to him. He died the thirteenth of the second Reby, in the year 1169 of the Hedjra; and his Secretary has enclosed this date in a chronogram in verses which he composed on the occasion. As soon as it was daylight, his body was attended by the Prince of the learned, Mir-mahmed-aaly-fazyl, (whose learning may God preserve!) by Aaly-verdy-qhan himself, and by all the relations and kinsmen of that family, as well as by the principal persons of the city, joined to an infinity of persons of all sexes and ranks. After purifying the body according to law, and pronouncing over it the customary prayers, they took it up, and carried it alternately upon their shoulders, to Moty-djil, a country-seat which he had built himself and much embellished. There they deposed it for a while in the mosque which he had raised in that palace's garden; and then they committed it to the ground close to Ecram-ed-doulah, in the very yard of that mosque. The moment they first raised his body from the ground, such a cry and such a scream broke out at once from an infinity of men and women, as seemed to rend the air;