[ʿAbd Allāh:] Suatu ketika saya melihat ayah saya mengancam beberapa semut dan menyuruh mereka meninggalkan rumahnya. Mereka pergi dalam kumpulan besar yang gelap dan tidak pernah kembali. 61.1

[ʿAbd Allāh:] Once I saw my father threaten some ants and ask them to leave his house. They left in a great dark mass and never returned. 61.1

[Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī l-Simsār:] Pada suatu malam Aḥmad pergi ke rumah Ṣaliḥ kerana anak lelaki Ṣaliḥ mengalami pendarahan dari hidung. Doktor-doktor313 telah datang dan merawatnya dengan akasia dan sebagainya,314 tetapi darah terus mengalir terlalu deras. 61.2

[Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī l-Simsār:] One night Aḥmad went over to Ṣaliḥ’s house because Ṣaliḥ’s son was bleeding from the nose. The doctors313 had come and were treating him with acacia and so on,314 but the blood was coming too fast. 61.2

"Ada apa, anakku?" kata Aḥmad.

“What’s wrong, son?” said Aḥmad.

"Atuk, saya akan mati!" kata budak itu. "Berdoalah kepada Tuhan untuk saya." "Kamu akan baik-baik saja," kata Aḥmad. Dia menggerakkan tangannya seolah-olah sedang berdoa untuknya, dan darah pun berhenti. Ini berlaku selepas semua orang sudah menganggap budak itu tidak akan selamat, kerana dia terus-menerus berdarah.

“Grandpa, I’m going to die!” said the boy. “Call to God for me.” “You’ll be all right,” said Aḥmad. He moved a hand as if praying for him and the blood stopped. This was after everyone had given the boy up for dead, since he had been bleeding continuously.

[Abū Ṭālib:] Suatu ketika saya sedang menulis imlak daripada Aḥmad, lalu pen saya patah. Beliau memberikan saya salah satu pennya sendiri. Kemudian saya menunjukkannya kepada Abū ʿAlī l-Jaʿfarī, sambil memberitahunya bahawa itu adalah pen yang diberikan oleh Aḥmad kepada saya. “Ambil ini,” katanya kepada hamba mudanya, “dan letakkannya di atas pokok kurma; mari kita lihat sama ada itu akan menyuburkannya.” 61.3

[Abū Ṭālib:] Once I was taking dictation from Aḥmad and my pen snapped. He gave me one of his own. Later I showed it to Abū ʿAlī l-Jaʿfarī, telling him that it was a pen that Aḥmad had given me. “Take it,” he told his serving boy, “and lay it on the palm tree: let’s see if that will fertilize it.” 61.3

Budak itu melakukan apa yang diminta kepadanya, lalu pokok itu berbuah.

The boy did as he was asked and the tree grew fruit.

[Al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad:] Salah seorang jiran saya, seorang lelaki bernama ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥarārah, menceritakan kisah ini kepada saya. 61.4

[Al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad:] One of my neighbors, a man named ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥarārah, told me this story. 61.4

"Ibu saya tidak dapat berjalan selama hampir dua puluh tahun. Suatu hari dia berkata, ‘Pergilah minta Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal berdoa kepada Tuhan untukku.’ Saya pergi ke rumahnya dan mengetuk pintu. Dia berada di ruang depan tetapi tidak membukakan pintu."

“My mother had been unable to walk for almost twenty years. One day she said, ‘Go ask Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal to pray to God for me.’ “I went to his house and knocked on the door. He was in the anteroom but he didn’t open up.

"Siapa itu?" dia memanggil.

“‘Who is it?’ he called out.

“Saya memberitahunya bahawa saya tinggal di kawasan itu dan ibu saya seorang yang uzur yang tidak dapat berjalan, dan dia mahu dia mendoakannya. Dari sebalik pintu datang balasan yang marah: ‘Dialah yang sepatutnya mendoakan saya!’ “Saya berpaling pergi. Ketika saya hendak berlalu, seorang wanita tua keluar dari rumah itu dan berkata, ‘Adakah kamu orang yang bercakap dengan Abū ʿAbd Allāh?’ “‘Ya.’ “‘Saya baru sahaja mendengar dia mendoakannya.’ “Saya bergegas pulang. Apabila saya mengetuk pintu, ibu saya keluar dengan berjalan kaki sendiri untuk membukanya sambil berkata, ‘Allah telah menyembuhkan saya!’” [Ibrāhīm ibn Hāniʾ]: Si Fulan, tukang tenun yang menyewa daripada Abū ʿAbd Allāh, memberitahu saya: “Pernah ketika saya sakit, saya terus mengerang sepanjang malam. Di tengah malam Aḥmad keluar dan berkata, ‘Siapa yang kesakitan di sana itu?’ 61.5

“I told him I lived in the neighborhood and my mother was an invalid who couldn’t walk and wanted him to pray for her. Through the door came an angry reply: ‘She’s the one who should be praying for me!’ “I turned away. As I was leaving an old woman came out of the house and said, ‘Are you the one who was talking to Abū ʿAbd Allāh?’ “‘Yes.’ “‘I just heard him praying for her.’ “I rushed home. When I knocked on the door, my mother came out walking on her own two feet to open it, saying, ‘God cured me!’” [Ibrāhīm ibn Hāniʾ]: So-and-So the weaver, who rented from Abū ʿAbd Allāh, told me: “Once when I was sick I kept moaning all night. In the middle of the night Aḥmad came out and said, ‘Who’s that in pain over there?’ 61.5

“Mereka memberitahunya, dan dia mendoakan saya. ‘Ya Tuhan, sembuhkanlah dia!’ katanya, lalu kembali masuk ke dalam. Rasa sakit itu tiba-tiba hilang, seolah-olah seseorang telah menyiramkan air ke atas api.” [Fāṭimah:] Saudara lelaki saya Ṣāliḥ pernah mengalami kebakaran di rumahnya. Dia telah berkahwin dengan keluarga kaya yang menghantar mas kahwin yang kelihatan bernilai empat ribu dirham, tetapi semuanya musnah dalam kebakaran itu. Ṣāliḥ berkata, “Yang saya risaukan hanyalah kehilangan jubah yang biasa dipakai ayah saya ketika solat. Saya suka memakainya untuk mendapatkan keberkatan dan solat dengannya.” 61.6

“They told him, and he prayed for me. ‘God, cure him!’ he said, and went back inside. The pain suddenly stopped, as if someone had poured water on a fire.” [Fāṭimah:] My brother Ṣāliḥ had a fire in his house. He’d married into a wealthy family who sent over a dowry that looked like it was worth four thousand dirhams, but all of it went up in smoke. Ṣāliḥ said, “All I care about is losing the robe that my father used to wear when he prayed. I liked to put it on for a blessing and pray in it.” 61.6

Apabila api telah dipadamkan, mereka masuk semula. Di atas katil mereka menjumpai jubah itu.

When the fire was put out, they went back in. On the bed they found the robe.

Semua di sekelilingnya telah terbakar, tetapi jubah itu tidak rosak.

Everything around it had burned up but the robe was unharmed.

[Penulis:] Saya mendengar kisah yang serupa daripada hakim agung, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Zaynabī. Rumahnya terbakar dan segala-galanya di dalam rumah itu hangus, kecuali sebuah kitab yang mengandungi sebahagian tulisan Aḥmad. 61.7

[The author:] I heard a similar story from the chief judge, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al- Zaynabī. He had a fire and everything in the house burned up except a book that had some of Aḥmad’s writing in it. 61.7

Mengenai diri saya, apabila Baghdad dilanda banjir pada tahun 554 [1159–60] dan buku-buku saya musnah, satu perkara yang terselamat ialah sebuah jilid yang mengandungi dua helai kertas dalam tulisan tangan Aḥmad.

As for myself, when Baghdad was flooded in 554 [1159–60] and my books were ruined, one thing that was spared was a volume containing two sheets in Aḥmad’s handwriting.

[Al-Lakkāf:] ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mūsā, yang merupakan seorang Sunni yang baik, memberitahu saya: “Pada suatu malam yang gelap, ayah saya dan saya keluar untuk menziarahi Aḥmad, tetapi keadaan menjadi terlalu gelap sehingga tidak dapat melihat apa-apa. Ayah saya berkata, ‘Marilah kita memohon kepada Allah dengan bertawassul kepada hamba-Nya yang soleh, Aḥmad, dan memohon kepada-Nya agar menerangi jalan kita. Selama tiga puluh tahun, setiap permintaan yang saya pohon dengan menyebut namanya telah dikabulkan.’ Ayah saya berdoa dan saya mengucapkan ‘Amin.’ Langit menjadi terang seolah-olah malam itu malam bulan purnama, dan keadaan itu kekal sehingga kami tiba.” 61.8

[Al-Lakkāf:] ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mūsā, who was a good Sunni, told me: “One dark night, my father and I went out to visit Aḥmad, but it got too dark to see. My father said, ‘Let’s call on God, invoking His righteous servant Aḥmad, and ask Him to light our way. For thirty years, everything I’ve asked for in his name has been granted.’ My father prayed and I said ‘Amen.’ The sky lit up as if it were a moonlit night and stayed that way until we arrived.” 61.8

[Al-Rāzī:] Sekumpulan dari kami mengiringi Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal sehingga ke pintu al-Mutawakkil. Beliau dibenarkan masuk melalui Pintu Orang-Orang Akrab, tetapi sebelum masuk, beliau berkata, "Kalian semua boleh pulang sekarang. Semoga Tuhan memelihara kesihatan kalian!" 61.9

[Al-Rāzī:] A group of us accompanied Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal as far as al- Mutawakkil’s gate. He was admitted at the Intimates’ Gate, but before going in, he said, “All of you can go back now. May God keep you in health!” 61.9

Sejak hari itu, tiada seorang pun daripada kami yang jatuh sakit.

Since that day, not one of us has fallen ill.