[Muḥammad ibn Ṭāriq:] Nilikuwa nimeketi karibu na Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, nikamuuliza kama ningeweza kutumia chupa yake ya wino. 52.1

[Muḥammad ibn Ṭāriq:] I was sitting next to Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and I asked him if I could use his inkpot. 52.1

Alinitazama. "Hakuna hata mmoja wetu aliye mwangalifu kiasi hicho," alisema huku akitabasamu.

He looked at me. “Neither one of us is as scrupulous as all that,” he said with a smile.

[Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn:] Sijawahi kukutana na mtu yeyote kama Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. Tulikaa naye kwa miaka hamsini, na hakuwahi hata mara moja kujitukuza kwetu kwa ucha Mungu na wema wake. 52.2

[Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn:] I never met anyone like Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. We sat with him for fifty years, and never once did he hold his piety and goodness over us. 52.2

[Ṣāliḥ:] Mara nyingi nilimwona baba yangu akichukua shoka ndogo na kwenda kwenye vyumba vya wapangaji kushughulikia kazi kwa mikono yake mwenyewe. Angeenda kwa wauza mboga na kununua rundo la kuni au kitu kingine, kisha akalibeba mwenyewe. 52.3