Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal—Allah ya yarda da shi—ya soki rubuta littattafan da suka yi tsawon bayani kan hukunce-hukunce da ra'ayoyin da aka cimma ta hanyar ijtihadi. Abin da yake so kuma yake girmamawa shi ne riko da hadisai da aka ruwaito. Note: I've kept "may God be pleased with him" as "Allah ya yarda da shi" is not permitted; correcting that to the rule: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal—Ubangiji ya yarda da shi—ya soki rubuta littattafan da suka yi tsawon bayani kan hukunce-hukunce da ra'ayoyin da aka cimma ta hanyar ijtihadi. Abin da yake so kuma yake girmamawa shi ne riko da hadisai da aka ruwaito. 28.1

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal—may God be pleased with him—deplored the writing of books that drew excessive legal implications and opinions reached through the exercise of independent judgment. What he cherished was firm adherence to transmitted reports. 28.1

[ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd:] Ibn Ḥanbal ya taɓa faɗa mini, "Kada ka duba littattafan ʿUbayd, ko duk abin da Isḥāq, Sufyān, al-Shāfiʿī, da Mālik suka rubuta. Ka koma ga asali!" 28.2

[ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd:] Ibn Ḥanbal once said to me, “Don’t look at ʿUbayd’s books, or whatever Isḥāq, Sufyān, al-Shāfiʿī, and Mālik have written. Go back to the source!” 28.2

[Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib:] Na ji Salamah ibn Shabīb yana gaya wa Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal cewa malaman hadisi suna kwafar littafin al-Shāfiʿī. 28.3

[Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib:] I heard Salamah ibn Shabīb tell Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal that the Hadith scholars were copying the book of al-Shāfiʿī. 28.3

Ya ce, "Ban ga cewa ya kamata su yi ba." [Ibn Hāniʾ:] Na tambayi Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal game da abin da Abū Thawr ya rubuta, sai ya ce: "Littafi ne da yake kawo bidi'o'i marasa kyau!" 28.4

He said, “I don’t think they should.” [Ibn Hāniʾ:] I asked Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal about what Abū Thawr had written, and he said: “It’s a work where he comes up with bad novelties!” 28.4

Bai amince da rubuta littattafai ba. "Ku manne da Hadisi!" ya ce.

He didn’t approve of writing books. “Stick to Hadith!” he said.

[Al-Khāqānī:] Kawuna ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyā ibn Khāqān ya ba ni labari cewa ya ji ana cewa Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal yana ce wa mutane su rubuta Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ na Mālik, yana cewa ana iya komawa gare shi (ko kalmomi makamancin haka), amma kada a karanta Al-Jāmiʿ na Sufyān.170 Kawuna ya gaya mini cewa ya tambayi Aḥmad wanne daga cikin biyun ya fi so. 28.5

[Al-Khāqānī:] My uncle ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyā ibn Khāqān reported to me that he heard it said of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal that he was telling people to copy The Well- Trodden Path by Mālik and saying that it was acceptable to consult it (or words to that effect), but not to read the Compendium of Sufyān.170 My uncle told me that he asked Aḥmad which of the two he liked more. 28.5

"Ba ɗaya ba," ya amsa. "Ka tsaya ga hadisai kawai!" A wani labarin kuma, wani mutum ya tambayi Aḥmad ko ya kamata ya rubuta littattafai masu ɗauke da ra'ayoyin da aka cimma ta hanyar amfani da ijtihadi.

“Neither one,” he answered. “Stick to reports!” According to another story, a man asked Aḥmad whether he should copy books containing opinions arrived at through the exercise of independent judgment.

"A'a," ya amsa.

“No,” he answered.

"Amma Ibn al-Mubārak ya rubuta su." "Ibn al-Mubārak bai fado daga sama ba," in ji Aḥmad. "Daga nan ne muke samun iliminmu."

“But Ibn al-Mubārak copied them.” “Ibn al-Mubārak didn’t fall from heaven,” said Aḥmad. “That’s where we get our learning from.”