[Ad-Dorimiy:] Ahmad ibn Hanbal menga bir xat yo‘llab, uni shunday boshlagan edi: “Abu Ja‘farga — Alloh sizni barakali qilsin! — Ahmad ibn Hanbaldan.” 34.1

[Al-Dārimī:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal once addressed a letter to me as follows: “To Abū Jaʿfar—God grace you!—from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.” 34.1

Ahmad aytar edi, murojaatlarda "to" so'zi "ilā" bo'lishi kerak, "li-" emas, va o'z xatlarini shunga muvofiq yozar edi.192 34.2

[Al-Marrūdhī:] Aḥmad used to say that the word “to” in addresses should be ilā and not li-, and addressed his letters accordingly.192 34.2

[Saʿid ibn Yaʿqūb:] Ahmad ibn Hanbal menga quyidagi maktubni yozdi: 34.3

[Saʿid ibn Yaʿqūb:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal wrote me the following letter: 34.3

Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim tarjimasi emas. Quyidagicha: Mehribon va rahmli Xudoning nomi bilan. Ahmad ibn Muhammaddan Sa'id ibn Ya'qubga. Keyin: bu dunyo narsalariga intilish bir xil kasallikdir, dunyoviy hokimiyatga intilish esa boshqa kasallikdir. Ilm egasi esa tabibdir. Ammo agar biror marta tabibning o'ziga kasallik keltirayotganini ko'rsangiz, undan saqlaning.

In the name of God, full of compassion, ever compassionate From Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad to Saʿid ibn Yaʿqūb Now then: desire for the things of this world is one kind of sickness, and desire for earthly power is another. The man of learning, on the other hand, is a physician. But if you ever see a physician bringing sickness on himself, avoid him.

Salom sizga! [Hanbal:] Ahmad ibn Hanbal xatlarni "Kimdan kimga" deb yozib jo'natar edi. Nega shunday qilishini so'raganimda, u shunday dedi: "Payg'ambar ﷺ Kisro va Qayser hamda boshqa barcha maktublarini ham shunday yozgan. Sahobalar ham shunday qilishgan, masalan, Umar — unga Alloh rozi bo'lsin — Utba ibn Farqadga shunday yozgan. Bugun esa men tanimaydigan hadis olimiga ham shunday yozaman." 34.4

Peace to you! [Ḥanbal:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal used to address letters by writing from So-and-So to So-and-So. When I asked him why, he said, “The Prophet, God bless and keep him, wrote to Chosroes and Caesar, and all his other letters, that way. So did his Companions, as when ʿUmar—God be pleased with him—wrote to ʿUtbah ibn Farqad. And today that’s how I write to a Hadith scholar I don’t know.” 34.4

"Demak, avval o'zingizni tilga olasizmi?" "Agar otangizga yozayotgan bo'lsangiz, o'z ismingiz o'rniga uning ismini avval yozgan ma'qul, xuddi shunday kattaroq yoshdagi odamga yozayotgan bo'lsangiz ham. Aks holda, bunda hech qanday xato yo'q." [Ibn Manīʿ:] Men Suvayd ibn Saʿīd huzurida ilm o'rganish uchun bormoqchi bo'ldim va Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbaldan u kishiga men uchun xat yozib berishini so'radim. Shunda u men haqimda "hadis yozib boradigan kishi" deb ta'riflab xat yozdi. 34.5

“So you mention yourself first?” “If you’re writing to your father, it’s better to put his name first instead of yours, and the same if you’re writing to someone old. Otherwise it’s fine.” [Ibn Manīʿ:] I wanted to go study with Suwayd ibn Saʿīd and I asked Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal if he would write to him for me. So he wrote a letter describing me as “a man who writes down Hadith.” 34.5

«Ahmad, — deb e'tiroz bildirdim, — o'ylab ko'ring, men sizga qancha vaqtdan beri xizmat qilyapman. Meni "hadischi" deb yoza olmaysizmi?» — «Hadischi, — dedi u, — men hadisni amalda qo'llaydigan odamni shunday atayman».

“Aḥmad,” I protested, “think how long I’ve served you. Couldn’t you write that I’m a Hadith-man?” “A Hadith-man,” he said, “is what I call someone who puts Hadith into practice.”