[Al-Būshanjī:] A shekarar 227 (842), Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal ya koyar da Hadisi a fili a Baghdad. Wannan ya faru ne jim kaɗan bayan rasuwar al-Mu'taṣim. Muna Kufa lokacin da muka ji labarin. Na nufi Baghdad, kuma na same shi a watan Rajab na wannan shekara, yana ci gaba da koyarwa. Sai kuma, a sauran kwana uku na Sha'aban, ya daina da kansa. Hukumomi ba su umarce shi da ya daina ba, amma al-Ḥasan ibn 'Alī ibn al-Ja'd, wanda a lokacin shi ne alkali a Baghdad, ya rubuta wa Ibn Abī Du'ād yana sanar da shi cewa Aḥmad yana koyar da Hadisi a fili. Da Aḥmad ya ji haka, sai ya daina ba tare da an umarce shi ba.

[Al-Būshanjī:] In ’27 [842], Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal taught Hadith openly in Baghdad. That was right after al-Muʿtaṣim died. We were in Kufa when we heard the news. I headed back to Baghdad and caught up with him in Rajab of that year, while he was still teaching. Then, with three days left in Shaʿbān, he stopped of his own accord. The authorities hadn’t told him to stop, but al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, who was then judge in Baghdad, had written to Ibn Abī Duʾād to tell him that Aḥmad was openly teaching Hadith. When Aḥmad learned of this, he stopped without having to be asked.

A cikin abin da muka sani, bai koyar ba a lokacin mulkin al-Mu'tasim, wanda ya dauki shekara takwas da kwana takwas. Bayan haka kuma bai sake koyarwa ba kwata-kwata har ya rasu. 71.1

As far as we know, he had not taught during al-Muʿtaṣim’s reign, which lasted for eight years and eight days. After that he did not teach again at all until he died. 71.1