[Ṣāliḥ:] Mwanamume ambaye mkewe alikuwa amejifungua mtoto hivi karibuni alimpa baba yangu sinia yenye kitindamlo cha asali na karanga. Badala yake, baba yangu alimpa sukari yenye thamani kubwa ya fedha. 43.1

[Ṣāliḥ:] A man whose wife had just had a baby gave my father a footed tray of honey nut pudding. In return my father gave him some sugar worth a good deal of money. 43.1

[Ṣāliḥ:] Mtu fulani alimtumia baba yangu matunda kama zawadi. Kwa kulipa wema huo, baba yangu alimtumia vazi zima. 43.2

[Ṣāliḥ:] Someone sent my father some fruit as a gift. In return, my father sent him an entire garment. 43.2

[Al-Marrūdhī:] Ninakumbuka kwamba Aḥmad, mtu fulani alipompa zawadi ya maji ya Zamzam, alimlipa kwa kumtumia unga wa shayiri na sukari. Siku moja aliniambia nitumie dirham tano kwa ajili ya zawadi kwa mtu fulani, akisema, “Nenda ukawaone watoto wake, kwa sababu alimpa Saʿīd zawadi.” 43.3

[Al-Marrūdhī:] I remember that Aḥmad, when a man made him a gift of some water from Zamzam, reciprocated by sending him barley meal and sugar. Once he told me to spend five dirhams on a gift for someone, saying, “Go see his children, since he gave Saʿīd226 a gift.” 43.3

[Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm:] Jirani mmoja wa Aḥmad, mtu aliyeitwa Jūwīn,227 alimpa bakuli lenye walnuts, zabibu kavu, na tini, vyote vikiwa na thamani ya dirhamu tatu au chini ya hapo. Aḥmad alinipa dinari moja akasema, "Nenda ukanunue sukari yenye thamani ya dirhamu kumi na tende yenye thamani ya dirhamu saba, kisha uzipeleke kwake usiku." 43.4

[Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm:] One of Aḥmad’s neighbors, a man named Jūwīn,227 gave him some walnuts, raisins, and figs in a bowl, the lot worth three dirhams or less. Aḥmad gave me a dinar and said, “Go buy ten dirhams’ worth of sugar and seven dirhams’ worth of dates, and drop it off at his place at night.” 43.4

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I did as he asked.

[Ibrāhīm ibn Hāniʾ:] Mtu mmoja kutoka Samarqand alikuja na barua ya mapendekezo kutoka kwa ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, hivyo Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal akakubali kumfundisha. Siku moja mtu huyo alimpa zawadi ya vazi. Aḥmad akampa baba yangu na kusema, “Lipeleke sokoni ukajue thamani yake.” 43.5

[Ibrāhīm ibn Hāniʾ:] A man from Samarqand came with a letter of recommendation from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, so Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal agreed to teach him. One day the man gave him a garment as a gift. Aḥmad gave it to my father and said, “Take it to the market and find out what it’s worth.” 43.5

Baba yangu alisema, "Nilimpeleka sokoni, nao wakasema lina thamani ya dirhamu ishirini na kitu. Nikarudi nikamwambia Aḥmad. Akaacha kumruhusu mtu huyo aingie hadi pale angenunua nguo mbili na barakoa mbili za uso, au nguo moja na barakoa moja ya uso, ili amrudishie. Mara tu alipotuma zawadi hizo, alimruhusu tena mtu huyo aingie kusikiliza Hadith." [Ḥanbal:] Aḥmad alikuwa na rafiki aliyeitwa Maḥfūẓ, ambaye alisafiri naye kwenda kujifunza kwa ʿAbd al-Razzāq. Wawili hao walipendana sana. Siku moja, mjumbe wake alitokea ghafla akileta vikapu kadhaa vya tende bora za Barnī. Niliingia nikamwambia Aḥmad. Alikubali zawadi hiyo, lakini akamtumia Maḥfūẓ nguo kama malipo.

My father said, “I took it to the market and they told me it was worth twenty-some dirhams, and I came back and told Aḥmad. He stopped letting the man in until he could buy two garments and two face veils—or a garment and a face veil—to give him in return. Once he had sent the gifts, he allowed the man in again to hear Hadith.” [Ḥanbal:] Aḥmad had a friend named Maḥfūẓ who had traveled with him to study with ʿAbd al-Razzāq. The two had a real liking for each other. One day, a messenger of his appeared out of nowhere bringing some baskets of premium Barnī dates. I went in and told Aḥmad. He accepted the gift, but he sent Maḥfūẓ a garment in return.

Maḥfūẓ alikuja kumwona na kusema, "Aḥmad, zawadi yako imenisikitisha." 43.6

Maḥfūẓ came to see him and said, “Aḥmad, your gift distressed me.” 43.6

"Na wewe pia ulinifanya nihuzunike," alijibu.

“And yours distressed me too,” he replied.