[Al-Dūrī:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal aliponiandikia barua ya utambulisho kwa baadhi ya wapokezi wa Hadith huko Basra, na akaniita kwa urahisi "mtu anayetafuta Hadith." 49.1

[Al-Dūrī:] When Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal wrote me a letter of introduction to some Hadith transmitters in Basra, he called me simply “someone seeking Hadith.” 49.1

[Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm:] Nilisikia kwamba Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal alipotembelewa na kundi la wenzake wa Hadith, alinunulia chakula cha kuwala kwa kutumia fedha zilizokuwa mkononi mwake pekee.264 Pia nilisikia kwamba al-Mutawakkil alipomleta Samarra, alikataa kugusa chochote kilichoandaliwa katika ikulu, na akafanya kaylajah—robo ya unga wa shayiri265—udumu kwa siku kumi na tano huku akingoja fedha zimfikie kutoka Baghdad. 49.2

[Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm:] I heard that when Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal was visited by a group of his fellow Hadith-men, he bought them something to eat using only the money he had on hand.264 I also heard that when al-Mutawakkil brought him to Samarra he refused to touch anything prepared at the palace, and made a kaylajah—a fourth of barley meal265—last for fifteen days while he waited for money to reach him from Baghdad. 49.2