[Al-Marrūdhī:] Aku mendengar Aḥmad berkata, "Aku tidak berkahwin sehinggalah aku berusia empat puluh tahun." 62.1

[Al-Marrūdhī:] I heard Aḥmad say, “I didn’t marry until I was forty.” 62.1

[Pengarang:] Isteri pertamanya ialah ʿAbbāsah binti al-Faḍl, yang merupakan ibu kepada Ṣāliḥ.

[The author:] His first wife was ʿAbbāsah bint al-Faḍl, who was Ṣāliḥ’s mother.

[Al-Khallāl:] Cucu Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Zuhayr, mendiktekan kepada kami yang berikut.

[Al-Khallāl:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal’s grandson Zuhayr dictated the following to us.

“Datuk saya, semoga Tuhan merahmatinya, mengahwini ibu bapa saya, ʿAbbāsah bint al-Faḍl, seorang Arab dari kawasan berhampiran Madinah. Dia hanya mempunyai seorang anak—ayah saya—dan kemudian dia meninggal dunia.” 62.2

“My grandfather, God have mercy on him, married my father’s mother, ʿAbbāsah bint al-Faḍl, an Arab from just outside Medina. She had only one child—my father—and then she died.” 62.2

[Al-Marrūdhī:] Saya mendengar Aḥmad berkata, "Ibu Ṣāliḥ dan saya hidup bersama selama tiga puluh tahun dan tidak pernah bertengkar."315 62.3

[Al-Marrūdhī:] I heard Aḥmad say, “Ṣāliḥ’s mother and I lived together for thirty years and never had an argument.”315 62.3

ISTERI KEDUANYA, RAYḤĀNAH, IBU ʿABD ALLĀH316

HIS SECOND WIFE, RAYḤĀNAH, ʿABD ALLĀH’S MOTHER316

[Zuhayr:] Selepas ibu Ṣāliḥ, ʿAbbāsah, meninggal dunia, ayah saya berkahwin dengan seorang wanita Arab bernama Rayḥānah. Beliau hanya melahirkan seorang anak untuk ayah saya: bapa saudara saya ʿAbd Allāh. 62.4

[Zuhayr:] After Ṣāliḥ’s mother, ʿAbbāsah, died, my father married an Arab woman named Rayḥānah. She bore him only one child: my uncle ʿAbd Allāh. 62.4

[Muḥammad ibn Baḥr:] Saya mendengar bapa saudara saya meriwayatkan: “Ketika kami semua berkumpul untuk menikahkan Aḥmad dengan adik perempuan Muḥammad ibn Rayḥān, bapanya berkata kepadanya, ‘Abū ʿAbd Allāh, dia—’ lalu meletakkan jarinya pada matanya, yang bermaksud ‘Dia bermata satu.’ 62.5

[Muḥammad ibn Baḥr:] I heard my uncle report: “When we all gathered to marry Aḥmad and Muḥammad ibn Rayḥān’s sister, her father said to him, ‘Abū ʿAbd Allāh, she’s—’ and laid a finger on his eye, meaning ‘She’s one-eyed.’ 62.5

“Aḥmad berkata, ‘Saya sudah tahu itu.’” [Aḥmad ibn ʿAnbar:] Apabila ibu Ṣāliḥ meninggal dunia, Aḥmad berkata kepada salah seorang wanita di rumah itu, “Pergilah kepada sepupuku, si Fulan, dan tanyakan kepadanya sama ada dia bersetuju untuk berkahwin dengan aku.” 62.6

“Aḥmad said, ‘I knew that.’” [Aḥmad ibn ʿAnbar:] When Ṣālih’s mother died, Aḥmad said to one of the women of the house, “Go to my cousin So-and-So and ask her if she’ll agree to marry me.” 62.6

Sepupu itu meriwayatkan: "Maka saya pergi bertanya, dan dia bersetuju. Tetapi apabila saya kembali, dia bertanya, 'Adakah saudara perempuannya sedang mendengar?' "Saya memberitahunya bahawa saudara perempuan itu" — yang bermata satu — "sedang mendengar. Dia berkata, 'Pergilah kembali dan minta yang bermata satu itu.' Maka saya pun pergi, dan dia menerima." Inilah ibu ʿAbd Allāh. Selepas tujuh tahun berkahwin, dia bertanya kepadanya, "Sepupu, bagaimana keadaan pada pandangan awak? Adakah ada apa-apa yang awak tidak suka?" "Tiada apa-apa," jawabnya, "kecuali kasut awak yang berbunyi berkeriuk itu." Al-Khallāl juga berkata: "Saya teringat Khaṭṭāb ibn Bishr berkata bahawa salah seorang isteri Aḥmad berkata kepadanya beberapa hari selepas dia masuk ke dalam rumah tangga itu: 'Adakah ada apa-apa yang saya lakukan dengan salah?'" 62.7

The cousin reported: “So I went and asked, and she agreed. But when I came back, he asked, ‘Was her sister listening?’ “I told him that the sister”—who was one-eyed—“had been listening. He said, ‘Go back and ask for the one with one eye.’ So I did, and she accepted.” This was ʿAbd Allāh’s mother. After seven years of marriage, she asked him, “Cousin, how do things seem to you? Is there anything you don’t like?” “Nothing,” he answered, “except that those sandals of yours squeak.” Al-Khallāl also said: “I remember Khaṭṭāb ibn Bishr saying that one of Aḥmad’s wives said to him a few days after she came into the household: ‘Is there anything I’m doing wrong?’ 62.7

“‘Tidak,’ jawabnya, ‘kecuali bahawa selipar yang awak pakai itu tidak wujud pada zaman Nabi ﷺ.’” Lalu dia menjual selipar itu dan membeli maqṭūʿ,317 yang kemudiannya dia pakai.

“‘No,’ he answered, ‘except that those sandals you’re wearing didn’t exist at the time of the Prophet, God bless and keep him.’” So she sold them and bought a maqṭūʿ,317 which she would wear.

Al-Khallāl menambahkan bahawa wanita yang dimaksudkannya ialah ini: iaitu ibu ʿAbd Allāh.

Al-Khallāl added that the woman he was talking about is this one: that is, ʿAbd Allāh’s mother.

Dia juga mendengar al-Marrūdhī berkata bahawa dia mendengar Aḥmad menyebut tentang seorang isteri dan memohon kepada Allah agar merahmatinya. Kemudian beliau berkata, "Kami hidup bersama selama dua puluh tahun dan tidak pernah bertengkar." Wanita itulah ibu ʿAbd Allāh.

He also heard al-Marrūdhī say that he heard Aḥmad mention a wife and ask God to have mercy on her. Then he said, “We lived together for twenty years and never had an argument.” That’s this woman: ʿAbd Allāh’s mother.

[Penulis:] Saya telah pun memetik Aḥmad sebagai berkata bahawa ibu Ṣāliḥ tinggal bersamanya selama tiga puluh tahun, dan riwayat terakhir ini mengatakan bahawa dia dan seorang isteri tinggal bersama selama dua puluh tahun. Walaupun kedua-dua riwayat itu dinisbahkan kepada al-Marrūdhī, salah satu daripadanya pasti silap. Aḥmad tidak berkahwin sama sekali sehingga usianya empat puluh tahun, dan dia tidak berkahwin lagi sehinggalah selepas ibu Ṣāliḥ meninggal dunia. Jika dia menghabiskan tiga puluh tahun bersama isteri itu dan dua puluh tahun lagi bersama isteri kedua, maka dia perlu hidup selama sembilan puluh tahun. Namun, dia hanya hidup sehingga usia tujuh puluh tujuh tahun. Lebih-lebih lagi, dia perlu berkahwin dengan ibu ʿAbd Allāh ketika dia sudah melebihi tujuh puluh tahun, sedangkan kita tahu bahawa menjelang kewafatannya, ʿAbd Allāh sudah pun meriwayatkan hadis-hadisnya dan mengembara bersamanya. Aḥmad biasa berkata bahawa ʿAbd Allāh, yang sudah mula mencari hadis dan telah mendengar ramai guru ketika ayahnya masih hidup, mempunyai daya ingatan yang baik untuk menghafal hadis. Oleh itu, saya berpendapat bahawa orang yang Aḥmad tinggal bersamanya selama dua puluh tahun ialah ibu Ṣāliḥ—namun Allah jualah yang lebih mengetahui. 62.8

[The author:] I’ve already quoted Aḥmad as saying that Ṣāliḥ’s mother lived with him for thirty years, and this last report says that he and a wife lived together for twenty. Although both reports are attributed to al-Marrūdhī, one of them must be wrong. Aḥmad did not marry at all until he was forty and did not marry again until after Ṣāliḥ’s mother had died. If he spent thirty years with her and another twenty with the second wife, he would have to have lived for ninety years. Yet he only lived to be seventy-seven. Moreover, he would need to have married ʿAbd Allāh’s mother when he was over seventy, but we know that by the time he died, ʿAbd Allāh was already transmitting his reports and traveling with him. Aḥmad used to say that ʿAbd Allāh— who had already begun seeking Hadith and had heard many teachers while his father was still alive—had a good head for memorizing Hadith. Therefore, I think that the person Aḥmad lived with for twenty years was Ṣāliḥ’s mother—though God knows best. 62.8

Ini, bagaimanapun, adalah dua isteri yang diketahui pernah dimiliki olehnya. Kami tidak pernah mendengar tentang isteri yang ketiga.

These, in any case, are the two wives he is known to have had. We have not heard of a third.