艾哈迈德（愿真主怜悯他）买了一名名叫侯斯恩的女奴。63。1

Aḥmad, God have mercy on him, bought a concubine named Ḥusn. 63.1

[Abū Yūsuf ibn Bukhtān:] 当艾哈迈德让我们为他买那个女孩时，福兰和我就去了。我们正要离开时，艾哈迈德追上我说：“一定要确认她身上有些肉。”63。2

[Abū Yūsuf ibn Bukhtān:] When Aḥmad asked us to buy the girl for him, Fūrān and I went. As we were leaving, Aḥmad came after me and said, “Make sure she’s got some meat on her.” 63.2

[Zuhayr:] 当ʿAbd Allāh的母亲去世后，Aḥmad买下了Ḥusn。她为他生下Umm ʿAlī，其名为Zaynab。之后她又生下al-Ḥasan和al-Ḥusayn，二人是双胞胎，但出生后不久便夭折了。随后她生下Muḥammad和al-Ḥasan，后者活到了约四十岁。在他们之后，她又生下Saʿīd。63。3

[Zuhayr:] When ʿAbd Allāh’s mother died, Aḥmad bought Ḥusn. She bore him Umm ʿAlī, whose name was Zaynab. Later she bore al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn, who were twins, but they died soon after they were born. Then she bore Muḥammad and al-Ḥasan, who lived till about forty. After them she bore Saʿīd. 63.3

[Ḥusn:] 我问我的主人我是否应该卖掉我的一个脚镯。他问我是否真的这样想，我说是的。634

[Ḥusn:] I asked my master whether I should sell one of my anklets. He asked if I really meant it, and I said I did. 63.4

“你做了这个选择，愿赞美归于真主。”他说道，“真主引导你做出了这样的决定。”于是我把脚环交给了Ṣāliḥ之子Abū l-Ḥasan，他以八个半第纳尔的价钱卖掉了它。我怀孕以后，我的主人把这笔钱分发了出去。我生下Ḥasan时，他给了一位名叫Karrāmah的老妇人一枚迪拉姆——她曾在我们家做事——并叫她去找我们的邻居Ibn Shujāʿ（他是个屠夫），让他拿着这笔钱去买一个羊头。318 他买了羊头，她把它带回家，我们就吃了。

“Praise God,” he said, “who led you to make this choice.” So I gave the anklet to Ṣāliḥ’s son Abū l-Ḥasan, who sold it for eight-and-a-half dinars. When I got pregnant, my master distributed the money. When I had Ḥasan, he gave a dirham to Karrāmah—an old woman who served us—and told her to go to Ibn Shujāʿ—a neighbor of ours who was a butcher—and tell him to take it and buy a head.318 He bought the head, she brought it home, and we ate it.

“Ḥusn,”他对我说，“我现在只剩下这一枚迪拉姆了，这也是你从我这里能得到任何东西的唯一一天。”319

“Ḥusn,” he said to me, “all I have left is this dirham, and this is the only day you’ll get anything from me.”319

每当家中没有钱的时候，我的主人整天都很开心。

Whenever there was no money in the house my master was happy all day.

一天他进来说他需要拔罐，但没有钱。于是我走到我的罐子旁，取出我存放在那里的半曼（mann）织物，派人送给一位织工，他卖了四个迪拉姆。我用半个迪拉姆买了肉，他用一个迪拉姆付了拔罐的费用。我另外又用一个迪拉姆买了一些香水。

One day he came in and said he needed a cupping but had no money. So I went to my jar, took out half a mann320 of weaving I kept there, and sent it out to one of the weavers, who sold it for four dirhams. I spent half a dirham on meat, and he spent a dirham on the cupping. I also bought some perfume for another dirham.

当我的主人前往萨马拉时,我织了一匹柔软的布,并用它做了一件漂亮的长袍。主人回来后,我把长袍拿了出来——这是在我从租金收入中得到十五迪拉姆报酬之后——但他一看到,就说:“我不要。”“主人,”我说,“我还有其他用不同棉花做的东西。”于是我把长袍给了福兰,他以四十二迪拉姆卖掉了它。我用这笔钱买了一些棉花,把它织成了一件大袍子。我告诉艾哈迈德后,他说:“别剪——就这样放着!”结果他把它当作裹尸布用,人们就用它把他包裹起来。我取出了粗布,而他剪了它。322

When my master went out to Samarra, I wove a length of soft cloth and used it to make a beautiful robe. When he came back I brought out the robe—this was after I’d been paid fifteen dirhams for it out of the rental income321—but when he saw it he said, “I don’t want it.” “Master,” I said, “I have other things I made from different cotton.” So I gave the robe to Fūrān, who sold it for forty-two dirhams. With that I bought some cotton and wove it into a large gown. When I told Aḥmad, he said, “Don’t cut— leave it be!” He ended up using it as his shroud and they wrapped him up in it. I took out the coarse material and he cut it.322

在他临近生命尽头、身体不适的时候，我曾为他烤过一些东西。

Once when he was sick at the end I baked something for him.

“你这个是在哪里烤的？”他问道。

“Where did you bake this?” he asked.

“我说：‘在阿卜杜拉那里。’”

“At ʿAbd Allāh’s,” I said.

“拿走吧，”他说，并拒绝吃它。

“Take it away,” he said, and refused to eat it.

据我们所知,艾哈迈德只娶过两位妻子——萨利赫的母亲和阿卜杜拉的母亲——并且只有一位侍妾,即我们所引用其传述的那位,她名叫侯斯恩。然而,艾布·哈桑·艾哈迈德·本·贾法尔·本·穆纳迪在其《艾哈迈德的美德》323一书中记载,艾哈迈德曾征得妻子的同意,想购买一名侍妾,以效法先知ﷺ的做法。她同意了,于是他买下一名价格低廉的女孩,并按照先知ﷺ的圣行为她取名为莱哈娜。如果此说属实,那么他必定买过两名奴婢,其中一名是在他妻子在世时买的。

[The author:] As far as we know, Aḥmad married only two women—Ṣāliḥ’s mother and ʿAbd Allāh’s—and had only the one concubine whose reports we have cited. Her name is Ḥusn. Yet, in his Virtues of Aḥmad,323 Abū l-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Munādī reports that Aḥmad asked his wife for permission to buy a concubine in order to emulate the practice of the Prophet. She gave her permission and he bought an inexpensive girl he named Rayḥānah, following the sunnah of the Prophet. If this is right, he must have bought two slaves, one during his wife’s lifetime.

但只有真主最知道！324 63。 Wait: the rule says write "God" as the Chinese word for God, never "Allah". Chinese word for God is 真主 commonly used in Islamic texts, which is acceptable as Chinese for God. The numbers stay as they are.5

But God alone knows best!324 63.5