[Al-Walīd al-Naḥwī:] 艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒是一位英俊的中等身材男子。他用少量海娜染过头发，胡须中留有一些黑发。他的衣服粗糙但洁白。我见到他时，他戴着头巾，穿着一条裤衩。35.1

[Al-Walīd al-Naḥwī:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal was a handsome man of medium height. He dyed his hair lightly with henna, leaving some black hairs in his beard. His clothing was coarse but white. When I saw him he was wearing a turban and a breechclout. 35.1

[ʿAbd Allāh:] 我父亲六十三岁时开始用指甲花染发和染须。35.2

[ʿAbd Allāh:] My father began dyeing his hair and beard with henna when he was sixty-three. 35.2

[Al-Sijistānī:] 艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒从不与人们谈论他们大多关心的事情，但每当提到圣训时，他便会开口讲述。35。3

[Al-Sijistānī:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal never joined people in talking about the things that most of them care about, but whenever Hadith was mentioned he would speak. 35.3

[Al-ʿUkbarī:] 当我见到艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒时，他是一位高个子老人，头发染过，皮肤非常黝黑。35。4

[Al-ʿUkbarī:] When I saw Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, he was a tall old man with dyed hair and very dark skin. 35.4

[阿尔-马鲁迪:] 艾哈迈德在家时，通常屈膝抱胸而坐，头低垂，在真主面前极为谦卑。而他在外面时，这种谦卑就不像在家里那样容易看出来。我进去时，常见他手里拿着一册小本子在读。我一坐下，他便合上它，放在面前。35。5

[Al-Marrūdhī:] When Aḥmad was at home, he usually sat knees to the chest with his head bowed humbly before God. When he was outside, though, the humility was not so easy to see as it was when he was inside. I would come in and find him reading from a quire he held in his hand. When I sat down, he would close it and put it down in front of him. 35.5

[哈塔卜·伊本·比什尔：]我与艾布·伯克尔·al-马鲁兹（Abū Bakr al-Marrūdhī）坐在艾哈迈德的清真寺里交流圣训。艾布·伯克尔听到门开了，便跳了起来。原来是艾哈迈德探出头来。35.6

[Khaṭṭāb ibn Bishr:] I was sitting in Aḥmad’s mosque with Abū Bakr al-Marrūdhī trading Hadith reports when Abū Bakr heard the door open and jumped up. There was Aḥmad, sticking his head out. 35.6

“去看看哈桑到哪里了，”他说，指的是他的小儿子。

“Go look and see where Ḥasan’s gotten to,” he said, meaning his little boy.

“这孩子可真让那个可怜人担心，”我心想。那时是正午，正值夏天。

“The boy’s really got the poor man worried,” I thought to myself. The time was midday, and it was summer.

阿布·伯克尔进入了织工们居住的其中一座房子，找到了那个男孩，并把他带了出来。男孩告诉了他我所在的位置，他便让我进去。193

Abū Bakr went into one of the houses where the weavers lived, found the boy, and brought him out. He told him where I was, and he told me to come in.193

我走进门廊,看见艾哈迈德坐在泥土地上。他头发上的染料已经褪色,我能看到他白色的发根。他围着一条又小又脏的白棉布遮羞布,穿着一件粗糙的衬衫,肩上有一块污渍,领口有汗渍。

I went into the entryway and found Aḥmad sitting on the dirt floor. The dye in his hair had run, and I could see the white roots of his hair. He was wearing a small, dirty breechclout of white cotton and a coarse shirt with a smudge on the shoulder and sweat stains on the collar.

我向他提了一个关于虔诚谨慎与谋生是否合法的问题。话音刚落，我便看到他神色黯然，露出一副自责而哀伤的模样，看得我心里发痛。我离开时，对身边的一个人说：“有些日子，他似乎对自己很不满意。”[伊斯玛仪：] 曾经有五千多人前来听艾哈迈德讲话。

I asked him a question about being scrupulous and the lawfulness of earning a living. No sooner had I asked the question than I saw his face fall and assume such a sorrowful expression of self-contempt that it pained me to look at him. As I left, I said to someone who was with me, “Some days he seems so dissatisfied with himself.” [Ismāʿīl:] Upwards of five thousand people used to come hear Aḥmad speak.

只有不到五百人前来记录圣训，其余的人则是来学习他的品行与仪态。357

Fewer than five hundred of them came to write down Hadith: the rest were there to study his manners and his bearing. 35.7

[Al-Muṭṭawwiʿī:] 十二年间,我常去拜访艾哈迈德,听他为子女诵读他的《圣训集》。我一条圣训也没有记录下来:我去那里,是为了效法他的榜样、学习他的品德、观察他的言行举止。35.8

[Al-Muṭṭawwiʿī:] For twelve years I went to see Aḥmad read his Authenticated Reports to his children. I never wrote down a single report: I was there to follow his example, study his ethics, and observe his manners. 35.8

[Al-Būshanjī:] 我看到艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒只有一种坐姿——双膝靠近胸前——除了在祈祷时。这就是盖拉在圣训记载中所描述的坐姿，她说：“我看到使者ﷺ双膝靠近胸前而坐，如同一个在真主面前自卑的人。”他通常就以这种姿势坐着用沙子进行小净，而这种姿势是最能表现对真主敬畏的。这意味着臀部着地，双膝靠近胸前，双脚平放在地上。有时他会用手臂环抱双腿。没有比这更能表现谦卑的姿势了。35.9

[Al-Būshanjī:] I saw Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal sit only one way—knees to the chest— except when he was praying. That’s the way of sitting that Qaylah describes in the Hadith report where she says, “I saw the Emissary of God sitting knees to the chest, like a man making himself humble before God.” He used to perform his ablutions with sand while sitting in that position, which is the most timid before God. It means sitting on one’s behind with the knees to the chest and feet flat on the floor. Sometimes he would put his arm around his legs. No posture is more timid than that. 35.9

[穆罕默德·伊本·尤努斯：] 我们听阿鲁·鲁阿伊斯（al-Ruʾāsī）传述说："在先知的众门徒中，论他的行为、仪态与举止，没有谁比阿卜杜拉·伊本·麦斯欧德更接近先知ﷺ。下一代中，最像伊本·麦斯欧德的是阿勒格玛·伊本·盖斯。阿勒格玛之后，最像他的是伊布拉欣·纳赫阿伊。纳赫阿伊之后，最像他的是曼苏尔·伊本·穆尔塔米尔。曼苏尔·伊本·穆尔塔米尔之后，最像他的是苏富扬·赛里。苏富扬之后，最像他的是瓦基尔·伊本·贾拉赫。"35.10

[Muḥammad ibn Yūnus:] We heard al-Ruʾāsī report: “Of all the Emissary’s Companions, none was closer to him in his example, his bearing, and his carriage than ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd. In the next generation, the one who most resembled Ibn Masʿūd was ʿAlqamah ibn Qays. After ʿAlqamah, the one who most resembled him was Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī. After al-Nakhaʿī, the one who most resembled him was Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir. After Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, the one who most resembled him was Sufyān al-Thawrī. After Sufyān, the one who most resembled him was Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ.” 35.10

而与瓦基尔最亲近的人是艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒。

And the one closest to Wakīʿ was Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.

[Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Rabīʿ:] 就其风范与品行而言,我能拿来与艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒相比的,只有伊本·穆巴拉克。3511

[Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Rabīʿ:] In his example and his bearing, the only person I can compare Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal to is Ibn al-Mubārak. 35.11