我最大的感激之情要归于阿卜杜拉·伊本·阿卜杜勒-穆赫辛·图尔基博士,他已完成了本书的两个附注校勘本。在准备这一版本的过程中,我查阅了《曼纳基布》的数个手抄本,但只在少数几处认为,较佳的读法可能与图尔基博士所采用的不同。每一页我都从他细致的异文列表、对罕见人名的标注以及他的解释性注释与出处索引中受益良多。他的学术诚信与克制也令我印象深刻,这一点尤其体现在他收录了与自己立场相左的记载之上。

My greatest debt of gratitude is to Dr. ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-Turkī, who has produced two annotated critical editions of this work. In the course of preparing this edition, I have had recourse to several manuscripts of the Manāqib, but found only a few places where I think the best reading may be different from the one Dr. al-Turkī has adopted. On every page I have benefited from his careful lists of variants, his voweling of unusual names, and his explanatory notes and references. I have also been impressed with his scholarly integrity and self-restraint, as proven—among other things—by his inclusion of reports that advocate positions he disagrees with.

关于手稿传承的完整说明,见于本文的注释。我非常感谢杰里米·法雷尔(Jeremy Farrell),他为我获取了达尔库图布(Dār al-Kutub)手稿的副本,并解决了将数字副本发送给我的技术问题。我也很高兴在此感谢骚德·奥尔萨汗(Saud AlSarhan),他为我从伊玛目穆罕默德·本·沙特伊斯兰大学获得了宰希里耶(Ẓāhiriyyah)手稿的副本,并感谢伯纳德·海克尔(Bernard Haykel)将其寄给我。我还要感谢切斯特·比蒂图书馆(Chester Beatty Library)的辛内德·沃德(Sinéad Ward)和弗朗西斯·纳尔基维茨(Frances Narkiewicz),他们为我寄来了该馆所藏的《马纳基布》(Manāqib)手稿。

A full account of the manuscript tradition appears in the note on the text. I am very grateful to Jeremy Farrell, who obtained a copy of the Dār al-Kutub manuscript and solved the technical problems associated with sending me a digital copy. It is a pleasure to thank Saud AlSarhan for obtaining a copy of the Ẓāhiriyyah manuscript from Imam Muḥammad ibn Saʿūd Islamic University, and to thank Bernard Haykel for mailing it to me. I would also like to thank Sinéad Ward and Frances Narkiewicz of the Chester Beatty Library for sending me their manuscript of the Manāqib.

我还要感谢Farrell先生和Albert Johns，他们慷慨地同意承担几乎全部圣训传述链（isnād）的翻译工作。尽管他们自身工作繁忙，Jeremy和Albert仍然欣然并迅速地完成了大量译文，而且准确性极高，恰在我最需要的时候送到。Emily Selove也同样出色地完成了其中一份冗长名单的翻译工作。没有他们的帮助，我绝无可能完成这个项目。

I am also indebted to Mr. Farrell and to Albert Johns for kindly agreeing to take on the job of translating almost all of the isnāds. Though busy with their own work, Jeremy and Albert cheerfully and speedily produced an enormous amount of remarkably accurate English text just when I needed it most. Emily Selove did equally good work with one of the long lists of names. I could never have finished this project without their help.

作为译者,每次翻译时,我都会再次体会到朋友们的可贵:他们学识渊博,又乐于慷慨分享。我的项目编辑塔赫拉·库特布丁(Tahera Qutbuddin)提出了许多建议和修正,每一条都审慎得当,表达得also体贴周到。通常并不习惯在具体某处感谢项目编辑的帮助,她的大部分修改也确实已被悄然采纳,但在几处问题上,她破解一个极其棘手的难题的敏锐洞察实在值得肯定,因此我不循惯例,特此致谢。图书馆的同事们——尤其是约瑟夫·洛瑞(Joseph Lowry)、詹姆斯·蒙哥马利(James Montgomery)、德文·斯图尔特(Devin Stewart)和沙乌卡特·图拉瓦(Shawkat Toorawa)——也解决了许多看似无解的问题;我们的执行编辑奇普·罗塞蒂(Chip Rossetti)同样是始终可靠的良师益友。我感谢斯图尔特·布朗(Stuart Brown)的匠心独运的排版设计,也感谢艾莉森·布朗(Allison Brown)和阿利亚·索利曼(Alia Soliman)对文本的细致校对。贾马尔·阿里(Jamal Ali)、穆罕默德·哈比布(Muhammad Habib)、斯特凡·海德曼(Stefan Heidemann)、努哈·库里(Nuha Khoury)、彼得·波尔曼(Peter Pormann)、纳赛尔·拉巴特(Nasser Rabbat)和德怀特·雷诺兹(Dwight Reynolds)各自凭借其专长领域回应了我的疑问。查尔斯·佩里(Charles Perry)就许多有关饮食与烹饪的问题给予了慷慨解答。我同样感激烹饪大师布丽吉特·卡兰(Brigitte Caland),她以阿拔斯时代为灵感设计的午餐,让我得以品尝伊本·罕百勒所吃(或更常见的,是未吃)的菜肴。

As always when I translate, I learn once again to appreciate my friends for how much my friends know and how generous they are in sharing it. My project editor, Tahera Qutbuddin, made many suggestions and corrections, all of them judicious and kindly conveyed. It is not general practice to thank project editors for their help in particular instances, and most of Tahera’s emendations have indeed been incorporated silently, but in several cases her astuteness in solving an utterly vexing conundrum so merits recognition that I have credited her in defiance of custom. Our colleagues at the Library—notably Joseph Lowry, James Montgomery, Devin Stewart, and Shawkat Toorawa—also solved a number of seemingly intractable problems, and our managing editor, Chip Rossetti, was also an unfailing source of good counsel. I am grateful to Stuart Brown for his inspired typography, and to Allison Brown and Alia Soliman for carefully proofreading the text. Jamal Ali, Muhammad Habib, Stefan Heidemann, Nuha Khoury, Peter Pormann, Nasser Rabbat, and Dwight Reynolds all responded to queries in their various areas of expertise. Charles Perry supplied generous answers to many questions about food and cookery. I am equally grateful to master chef Brigitte Caland, whose Abbasid-inspired luncheons allowed me to taste the dishes that Ibn Ḥanbal ate (or more usually, did not eat).

我很高兴在此感谢克里斯托弗·梅尔切特（Christopher Melchert），他解答了我的许多疑问，并在他对第一版的评论中提出了多条有益的意见；感谢费萨尔·阿卜杜拉（Faisal Abdallah），他仔细通读了第一版的第一卷，并指出了许多错误；感谢凯尔·甘布尔（Kyle Gamble），他出色地纠正了61.2中的一个严重错误。我也感谢玛西娅·林克斯·奎利（Marcia Lynx Qualey），她在博客上发表的两次访谈中提出的深刻问题令我受益。我感谢我在马耳他的朋友们，特别是安娜贝尔·马利亚（Annabel Mallia）、大卫·马利亚（David Mallia）、奥尔文·韦拉（Olvin Vella）以及塞恩格莱阿（Senglea）的乡亲们，他们让我看到，伊本·罕百勒（Ibn Ḥanbal）语言中的某些成分竟在最意想不到的地方依然留存。我感谢我的妻子马赫萨·马勒基（Mahsa Maleki），她不仅包容我在办公室里的许多个深夜，还在人名表的整理上给予了帮助（这证明了前现代的人们关于朗读有益的说法确有道理）。最后，我要感谢我们的总主编菲利普·肯尼迪（Philip Kennedy），他构想了阿拉伯文学丛书这样雄心勃勃的项目，并慷慨地允许我参与其中。

I am delighted to acknowledge the help of Christopher Melchert, who answered many queries, and made several helpful comments in his review of the first edition; Faisal Abdallah, who carefully read through the first volume of the first edition and brought a number of errors to my attention; and Kyle Gamble, who brilliantly corrected a bad mistake in 61.2. I also thank Marcia Lynx Qualey for the insightful questions she posed in two interviews published in her blog. I thank my friends in Malta, especially Annabel Mallia, David Mallia, Olvin Vella, and the people of Senglea, for showing me that some of Ibn Ḥanbal’s language still survives in the most unexpected of places. I am grateful to my wife, Mahsa Maleki, not only for putting up with my many late nights at the office, but also for her help with the name-lists (which proved that pre-modern people were quite right about the helpfulness of reading aloud). Finally, I am indebted to our general editor, Philip Kennedy, for envisioning a project as ambitious as the Library of Arabic Literature, and for generously allowing me to take part in it.