Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq: Na tuna cewa Aḥmad yana ƙin a rubuta ra'ayinsa ko hukuncinsa a al'amuran shari'a. 29.1

[Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq:] I remember that Aḥmad hated to have anyone write down his views or his judgments in matters of law. 29.1

[Aḥmad ibn al-Rabīʿ:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal ya taɓa faɗa mana, "Na ji cewa Isḥāq al-Kawsaj yana koyar da amsoshina ga tambayoyin shari'a a Khurasan. Ku shaida, ku duka: na ƙi su gaba ɗaya!" 29.2

[Aḥmad ibn al-Rabīʿ:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal once said to us, “I heard that Isḥāq al- Kawsaj is teaching my answers to legal questions out in Khurasan. Bear witness, all of you: I renounce them all!” 29.2

[Al-Marrūdhī:] Na taɓa ganin wani mutum daga Khurasan yana zuwa wurin Aḥmad ya ba shi wata takarda. Ya duba ta, da ya ga akwai wasu daga cikin kalmominsa a cikinta, sai ya yi fushi ya jefar da takardar. 29.3

[Al-Marrūdhī:] I once saw a man from Khurasan approach Aḥmad and give him a quire. He looked at it and when he saw that it had some of his own words in it, he grew angry and tossed the document away. 29.3

[Aḥmad al-Burjī:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal ya taɓa cewa, "Wani lokaci hula mai tsayi takan sauko daga sama, sai ka karkaɗa kai irin haka," sannan ya girgiza kansa kamar yana hana hular sauka a kansa. 29.4

[Aḥmad al-Burjī:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal once said, “Sometimes a tall cap falls from the sky, and you have to move your head like this,” and he shook his head as if to keep a cap from settling on it. 29.4

Abin da yake nufi shi ne cewa wasu mutane kan samu shugabanci ba tare da sun nemi hakan ba. Haka kuma yana nufin cewa nagargarun mutane kan yi kasa da kai cikin tawali'u idan hakan ya faru.

What he meant was that certain people have leadership thrust upon them. He also seems to have meant that good people duck their heads modestly when that happens.

Daga tawali'u ma, Aḥmad ya hana mutane rubuta maganganunsa, amma Allah ya ƙaddara a rubuta su, a tsara su, a sanar da kowa. Wait—per the rules, the translation must say "God", not "Allah", and I must not write "Allah" at all. Corrected: Daga tawali'u ma, Aḥmad ya hana mutane rubuta maganganunsa, amma Ubangiji ya ƙaddara a rubuta su, a tsara su, a sanar da kowa.172

Out of modesty, too, did Aḥmad forbid people to write his words down, but God decreed that they be recorded, put in order, and made known to all.172