[Abū l-Qāsim al-Jabbulī:] Mafi yawan mutane suna tunanin cewa Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal ya shahara ne musamman saboda abin da ya yi a lokacin Mihna, amma ba haka ba ne. Ya shahara ne saboda duk wata tambaya da za a yi masa a kan kowace mas'ala, zai amsa kamar yana da dukkan ilimin duniya a gabansa. 9.1

[Abū l-Qāsim al-Jabbulī:] Most people think that Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal became famous largely because of what he did during the Inquisition, but that’s not so. It was because you could ask him about any issue and he would answer as if he had all the learning in the world laid out before him. 9.1

[Al-Ḥarbī]: Na rayu har na ga maza uku waɗanda ba kamarsu a cikin wasu ba: maza waɗanda ba su kai ga wani da aka haifa daga mace ba.

[Al-Ḥarbī]: I lived to see three men like no other: men unlike any of woman born.

Na farko shi ne Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām. Abin da zan iya kwatanta shi da shi kawai shi ne dutse mai cike da numfashin rai. Na biyu shi ne Bishr ibn al-Ḥārith. Hanya guda da za a bayyana shi ita ce a ce duka jikinsa, tun daga kambun kansa har zuwa tafin ƙafafunsa, kamar an kwaɓa shi ne daga laka ta kamewa da kai. Na uku shi ne Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. A gare ni ya zama kamar ya tara ilimin zamanin da da na zamani, na kowane iri, har ya iya faɗar abin da yake so, ko ya riƙe duk abin da ya ga dama. 9.2