[Abū Yūsuf:] Nilimsikia Aḥmad akisema mara moja, "Kuna njia tatu za kula: kula pamoja na marafiki kwa starehe, kula pamoja na maskini kwa sadaka, na kula pamoja na watu wa dunia kwa wajibu." 32.1

[Abū Yūsuf:] I once heard Aḥmad say, “There are three ways to eat: with friends for pleasure, with the poor in charity, and with worldly men out of duty.” 32.1

[Al-Marrūdhī:] Nilimsikia Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal akisema, "Kila kitu kinaweza kuwa cha heshima. Moyo wa mtu una heshima pale unapokubali mapenzi ya Mungu."181 32.2

[Al-Marrūdhī:] I heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal say, “Anything can be noble. A person’s heart is noble when it accepts God’s will.”181 32.2

[Ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz:] Mara moja nilimwona al-Muṭīʿ li-Llāh 182 juu ya mimbari akijaribu kuwavutia kundi la Ḥanbalīs—labda thelathini elfu—waliokuwa wakimtazama. Alisema, "Nilimsikia mwalimu wangu Ibn Bint Manīʿ akisema kwamba alimsikia Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal akisema: 'Mtu anaposhuka hadhi yake pale marafiki zake wanapokufa.'" 32.3

[Ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz:] I once saw al-Muṭīʿ li-Llāh 182 on the pulpit trying to win over a crowd of Ḥanbalīs—maybe thirty thousand—who were looking at him. He said, “I heard my teacher Ibn Bint Manīʿ say that he heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal say, ‘When a man’s friends die he comes down in the world.’” 32.3