[ʿAbd Allāh:] 我父亲常在礼拜结束时这样说：“真主啊，你使我免于向你之外的任何人叩拜，求你同样使我免于向你之外的任何人求取什么。”60。1

[ʿAbd Allāh:] At the end of his ritual prayers, my father often used to say, “God, you have safeguarded me from prostrating myself before any but You. Safeguard me likewise from seeking anything from any but You.” 60.1

最后我说:“我常听你这样说。你是在遵循某种先例吗?”他回答:“是的。瓦基尔·伊本·贾拉赫(Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāh)常这样说,所以我像你刚才问我那样,去问他这件事。他说他听苏富扬·赛里(Sufyān al-Thawrī)这样说过,而苏富扬被问到时,说他是从曼苏尔·伊本·穆塔米尔(Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir)那里听来的。”[阿尔-拉扎兹:]有一次我们与艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒一同礼拜,我听到他说:“真主啊,如果有人遵循私欲或个人臆断,自以为正确而实则有误,求你使他归于真理,使这个乌玛中无人迷失。”60.2

Finally I said, “I hear you saying that a lot. Are you following a precedent?” “Yes,” he answered. “Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāh used to say it often, so I asked him about it, just as you asked me now. He said that he heard Sufyān al-Thawrī say it and that Sufyān, when he asked him about it, said that he heard it from Manṣūr ibn al- Muʿtamir.” [Al-Razzāz:] Once when we were praying with Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, I heard him say, “God, if anyone has followed a caprice or an independent judgment, believing that he is right when he is mistaken, return him to the truth so that no member of this community goes astray. 60.2

“真主啊，求你不要让我们为你已担保供给的生计而烦恼，也不要让我们为那来自你的给养而依赖他人。”

“God, let us not trouble ourselves over the sustenance that You have undertaken to provide, nor make us dependent on others for that sustenance that comes from You.

愿我们能够获得祢所应许的那些最美好的事物，而不被最糟糕的事物所阻挡。

“Let us achieve the best of those things that You have promised without being deterred by the worst.

愿你永远看不到我们做你所禁止的事，也不要发现我们在你所命令的事情上有所懈怠。

“May You never see us doing what You have forbidden, nor find us shirking from what You have commanded.

“求你使我们尊贵，不要使我们卑贱：使我们因顺从你而尊贵，不要使我们因违抗你而卑贱。”有一次，有人来到他面前问了他一件事，我没能听清。

“Ennoble us and do not abase us: ennoble us through obedience to You, and do not abase us through disobedience of You.” One time a man came to him and asked him something I couldn’t make out.

Aḥmad回答说："尽你所能坚持下去；胜利在于坚韧。"接着他又说："先知ﷺ说：'胜利在于坚韧，苦难之后便是安乐。{诚然，艰难之后必有容易；诚然，艰难之后必有容易。}'"310

Aḥmad answered, “Hold out as long as you can; in strength is victory.” Then he added, “The Prophet, God bless and keep him, said, ‘In strength is victory, and after suffering comes relief. «Surely with every hardship there is ease; surely with every hardship there is ease.»’”310

[Al-Ṣaffār:] 我们在艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒处，我请他为我们祈祷。他说：“主啊，你知道我们知道，你为我们所欲的，大多是我们为自己所求的；求你使我们为自己所求的，只是你为我们所欲的。”60.3

[Al-Ṣaffār:] We were at Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal’s, and I asked him to pray for us. He said, “God, You know that we know that You desire for us most of what we seek for ourselves; make us rather seek for ourselves only what You desire for us.” 60.3

他沉默了。然后有人说:“再多说一些吧。”他说:“主啊,我们祈求您,凭着您所说的那种大能——当您对天地说:“你们或顺从或不顺从都要来”,它们都说:“我们顺从地来了”[311]——引导我们走向您所喜悦的道路。我们寻求您的庇护,免于一切需求,除了对您的需求;免于一切屈从,除了对您的屈从。不要给我们太多,以免我们骄傲自大;也不要给我们太少,以免我们疏忽怠慢。求您以慈悲赐予我们足以供给的给养,以及一种让我们只依靠您的恩惠。”[Al-Khawātīmī:] 在艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒遭受鞭打、随后被逐出哈里发的宫殿之后,我去探望他。我发现他俯卧在屋里祈祷。我听见他说:“噢,您是以您所行之事来报答我们的主啊,请对我做那些使我配得您赏赐的事吧。”[312] 60.4

He fell silent. Then someone said, “Give us more.” “God,” he said, “we ask You, by that power You spoke of when You said to the heavens and the earth, «Come willingly or unwillingly, and they both said, ‘We come willingly,’»311 to guide us to what pleases You. We seek Your protection against all need except the need for You, and all subjection except to You. Give us not so much that we wax arrogant, nor so little that we become heedless. Grant us, in Your mercy, a sustenance that will suffice us, and a bounty that leaves us dependent on none but You.” [Al-Khawātīmī:] After Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal had been flogged and then sent out of the caliph’s palace, I went to visit him. I found him lying face down in the house, praying. I overheard him say, “O You who reward us for what You do,312 do to me whatever makes me deserving of Your reward.” 60.4

我听说，al-Marrūdhī 说，有一群人聚集到 Aḥmad 那里，请他为他们祈祷。他说：“主啊，不要要求我们报答与你的恩惠相等的感恩。”我听 Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Ṣaffār 说：“Aḥmad 每次礼拜结束时都会说：‘主啊，我求你以你的慈悲所要求的程度来怜悯我们，并以你决定宽恕的程度来赦免我们。我求你让我们收获善行的回报，并保护我们免于罪恶。我求你让我们胜利地进入乐园，并逃离火狱。如果我们犯罪，求你饶恕我们；如果我们忧虑，求你消除我们的烦恼。让我们不缺乏任何东西，而是得到供给。’”[Al-Warrāq：] 当我们在 Tarsus 时，我们遇到一个准备离开该城的人，请 Aḥmad 为他提供一段祈祷。他告诉他说：“迷途者的引导者啊！引领我走上诚实之人所行的道路，使我成为一个正直的仆人。” 60.5

I heard that al-Marrūdhī said that a group had gathered at Aḥmad’s and asked him to pray. “God,” he said, “do not demand from us a gratitude equal to Your blessings.” I heard Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Ṣaffār say, “At the the end of every prayer, Aḥmad would say, ‘God, I ask You to treat us as mercifully as Your mercy demands, and to forgive as as You have resolved to do. I ask You to let us reap the reward of our good deeds and to safeguard us from iniquity. I ask You to let us enter the Garden in triumph and to escape the Fire. If we sin, pardon us; if we worry, dispel our care. Let us want for nothing, but provide.’” [Al-Warrāq:] When we were in Tarsus we met someone who was leaving the city and asked Aḥmad to supply him with a prayer. He told him to say, “O guide to the errant! Lead me to the path where the truthful walk, and make of me a righteous servant.” 60.5

那个人离开了。在路上，他遇到了一些麻烦，与同伴失散了。他念了阿哈迈德教给他的那段祈祷词，不久便追上了队伍。之后他来到阿哈迈德那里，把所发生的事情告诉了他。

The man left. On the road, he ran into some trouble and was separated from his companions. He uttered the prayer Aḥmad had taught him and shortly afterward caught up with the party. Later he came to Aḥmad and told him what had happened.

“保守这个秘密。”艾哈迈德说。

“Keep it a secret,” said Aḥmad.

[Saʿd ibn Masʿadah:] 我听到住在埃及的泰勒哈·本·欧拜杜拉·巴格达迪讲述，他和艾哈迈德曾经一同乘船旅行。艾哈迈德除了说“真主啊，让我以穆斯林的身份死去，并遵循圣行而死吧”之外，别无他言。60。6

[Saʿd ibn Masʿadah:] I heard Ṭalḥah ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Baghdādī, who lived in Egypt, report that he and Aḥmad happened to travel by ship together. Aḥmad did not speak except to say, “God, let me die a Muslim and a follower of the sunnah.” 60.6