他对撰写以独立判断(ijtihad)得出的观点为主、却以牺牲传承知识为代价的著作心存反感。
His Aversion To Writing Books Containing Opinions Reached Through The Exercise Of Independent Judgment At The Expense Of Transmitted Knowledge
艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒——愿真主喜悦他——痛斥那些过度推演法律含义、并以个人独立判断得出结论的著作。他所珍视的，是坚定地恪守传述的圣训。28.1
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal—may God be pleased with him—deplored the writing of books that drew excessive legal implications and opinions reached through the exercise of independent judgment. What he cherished was firm adherence to transmitted reports. 28.1
[ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd:] 伊本·罕百勒曾对我说:“不要去看ʿUbayd的书,也不要看Isḥāq、Sufyān、al-Shāfiʿī和Mālik所写的任何东西,要回到源头去!”28.2
[ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd:] Ibn Ḥanbal once said to me, “Don’t look at ʿUbayd’s books, or whatever Isḥāq, Sufyān, al-Shāfiʿī, and Mālik have written. Go back to the source!” 28.2
[易卜拉欣·伊本·阿比·塔利卜：] 我听到萨拉马·伊本·沙比卜对艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒说，圣训学者们当时都在抄写沙斐仪的书。28.3
[Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib:] I heard Salamah ibn Shabīb tell Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal that the Hadith scholars were copying the book of al-Shāfiʿī. 28.3