Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥanbal ash-Shaybāniyning fazilatlari — Alloh undan rozi bo‘lsin! — buyuk diniy imom Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Javziy tomonidan — Alloh undan rozi bo‘lsin!

The Virtues of Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥanbal, of the tribe of Shaybān—God be pleased with him!—by the great religious authority Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jawzī, God be pleased with him!

Olloh (Alloh emas, "God" - Xudo) ga hamd bo‘lsin, U barcha narsani benazir mahorat bilan yaratdi va odamlar orasidan kimning avval, kimning keyin kelishini tanladi. Insonlar orasidan U payg‘ambarlar va donishmandlarni ko‘tardi, ularning ikkisidan ham solih olimlarni merosxo‘r qildi. So‘ngra o‘sha bilimli kishilar orasidan oz sonlarini tanladi va o‘sha bir necha kishiga saxiy qo‘l bilan alohida fazilat berdi. Xudo Muhammad ﷺ ga, cho‘l yerlarga tushgan kishilar orasidan o‘z qavmining eng ulug‘ otliq sarkardasiga rahmat va salomat bersin; va unga ergashib buyuklikka erishgan kishilarga, hamda oxirgi kunga qadar imon bilan unga ergashganlarga rahmat va najot bersin, o‘sha kuni U bu larzon dunyoni o‘z holiga keltiradi.

Praise God, Who did all things create with skill unmatch’d and chose of men who would come first and who behind. From humankind He raised His prophets and His seers, and of them both did make the righteous scholars heirs. Then of those knowing men did He a lesser number find, and to those few with gen’rous hand a special virtue give. May God bless and keep Muḥammad, of those who alight in desert lands the noblest rider of his race; and bless and save the ones who in joining him touched greatness, and those who followed him in faith, until the Day when He shall set this tott’ring world aright.

Aziz birodarlarim, Alloh sizning sa'y-harakatlaringizga muvaffaqiyat tojini kiygizsin, deb duo qilaman. Shuningdek, Uning, qudratli va ulug' Zot, Muhammad ﷺ ni yaratilmishlar ichida eng fazilatli zot qilib yaratganini va uning ummatini ham boshqa ummatlardan ustun qo'yganini yodga olishingizni so'rayman. Bu ustunlikning sababi ilm edi: bilish va bilganiga amal qilish. Payg'ambarimiz ﷺ hayotini o'rganib ko'rsangiz, uning boshqa payg'ambarlardan ustunligi bilgan narsalaridan va o'sha bilimini amalda qanday tatbiq etganidan kelib chiqqanini anglaysiz.

I pray, my brothers, that God crown your efforts with success; and I ask you to recall that He, mighty and glorious, made Muḥammad—God bless him and keep him —the most virtuous being in creation, and likewise placed his community above the rest. The reason for this precedence was knowledge: knowing, and acting on what one knows. Examine the life of our Prophet and you will realize that his superiority to other prophets arises from what he knew and how he put that knowledge into practice.

Ulamolarimizning ilmini ham o‘ylab ko‘ring, shunda ravvinlarning kuchi ularga yetmasligini osongina anglaysiz. Ibodatchilarimizning ibodati rohiblarni ham uyaltirishini ko‘ring: shariat bilan cheklangan va nafsning istaklariga qarshi qilinadigan ibodat rohiblikdan ko‘ra mashaqqatliroq va afzalroqdir, rohiblik esa hech qanday e’tiborga loyiq emas. Alloh taoloning inoyati bilan jamoamizda na ilmga, na amalga kamchilik yo‘q. Shunga qaramay, men tobe’inlar avlodidan yoki undan keyingi avlodlardan, ikkala jihatda, ya’ni bilimi va hayot tarzida kamolotga yetgan kishilarni izlaganimda, faqat uchtasini topdim, ularning yutug‘i to‘liq va hech qanday kamchiliksiz: al-Hasan al-Basriy, Sufyon ibn Sa’id as-Savriy va Ahmad ibn Hanbal.3