[Ṣāliḥ:] Lokacin da mahaifina ya yi rashin lafiya, ya bar su su kula da shi. Don ya samu dumi a lokacin hunturu, sukan saya tushen itacen ƙaya su ƙone shi a cikin wani kwano mai kunkuntar da garwashi. 47.1

[Ṣāliḥ:] When my father got sick, he let them take care of him. To keep him warm in winter, they would buy thorn-bush roots and burn them in a narrow coal-pan. 47.1

[Al-Muṭawwiʿī:] Mahaifina ya ruwaito cewa Ahmad ibn Hanbal ba ya cin mai-zaki da cokali. Maimakon haka, yana cinsa da hannunsa. Ya kuma ce yana cin burodi mai sirara. 47.2

[Al-Muṭawwiʿī:] My father reported that Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal didn’t eat pudding with a spoon. Instead, he would eat it out of his hand. He also said that he ate thin flatbread. 47.2

"Ta yaya kka sani?" na tambaya.

“How do you know?” I asked.

"Wata rana na kasance a waje da ƙofarsa, nan da nan bayan ɗansa Ṣāliḥ ya yi gasa masa wani abinci. Wani mabaraci ya zo ƙofar yana roƙo, sai aka fito masa da kullin burodi guda. Na fahimci cewa lallai Aḥmad ma yana ci irin wannan abincin, domin Annabi ﷺ ya ce: ‘Kada ku bayar da abin da ba ku ci ba.’"

“Once I happened to be outside his door just after his son Ṣāliḥ had done some baking for him. A beggar came to the door begging, and they sent out a crust of flatbread. I realized that Aḥmad must eat the same thing, since the Prophet, God bless and keep him, said, ‘Don’t give away anything you don’t eat.’”