［ʿAbd Allāh］：有一次我看见父亲警告一群蚂蚁，让它们离开他的房子。它们成一大片黑压压的队伍离开了，再也没有回来。61。1

[ʿAbd Allāh:] Once I saw my father threaten some ants and ask them to leave his house. They left in a great dark mass and never returned. 61.1

[穆罕默德·本·阿里·al-西姆萨尔:]一天夜里,艾哈迈德去了萨利赫家,因为萨利赫的儿子流鼻血。医生们已经来过,用金合欢等药物为他治疗,但血流得太快了。61.2

[Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī l-Simsār:] One night Aḥmad went over to Ṣaliḥ’s house because Ṣaliḥ’s son was bleeding from the nose. The doctors313 had come and were treating him with acacia and so on,314 but the blood was coming too fast. 61.2

“孩子，怎么了？”艾哈迈德问道。

“What’s wrong, son?” said Aḥmad.

“爷爷，我要死了！”男孩说，“替我向真主祈祷吧。”“你会没事的，”艾哈迈德说。他把手移动起来，仿佛在为他祈祷，血便止住了。在此之前，所有人都已放弃了这个男孩，因为他一直在不停地流血。

“Grandpa, I’m going to die!” said the boy. “Call to God for me.” “You’ll be all right,” said Aḥmad. He moved a hand as if praying for him and the blood stopped. This was after everyone had given the boy up for dead, since he had been bleeding continuously.

[Abū Ṭālib：] 有一次我在记录艾哈迈德口述的内容时，我的笔断了。他把他自己的一支笔给了我。后来我把它拿给阿布·阿里·贾法里看，告诉他这是艾哈迈德给我的笔。他对他的仆人说：“拿去放在棕榈树上，看看它能不能让树受精。”61.3

[Abū Ṭālib:] Once I was taking dictation from Aḥmad and my pen snapped. He gave me one of his own. Later I showed it to Abū ʿAlī l-Jaʿfarī, telling him that it was a pen that Aḥmad had given me. “Take it,” he told his serving boy, “and lay it on the palm tree: let’s see if that will fertilize it.” 61.3

那个男孩照他所要求的去做了，于是那棵树结出了果实。

The boy did as he was asked and the tree grew fruit.

［阿拔斯·伊本·穆罕默德］：我的一位邻居，名叫阿里·伊本·艾卜·哈拉拉的人，给我讲了这个故事。61.4

[Al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad:] One of my neighbors, a man named ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥarārah, told me this story. 61.4

“我的母亲近二十年来一直无法行走。一天，她说：‘去求艾哈迈德·本·韩百勒，请他为我向真主祈祷。’” “我去了他的家，敲了敲门。他就在前厅里，却没有开门。”

“My mother had been unable to walk for almost twenty years. One day she said, ‘Go ask Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal to pray to God for me.’ “I went to his house and knocked on the door. He was in the anteroom but he didn’t open up.

“‘是谁？’他大声问道。

“‘Who is it?’ he called out.

“我告诉他，我住在这个街区，我的母亲身体残疾，不能走路，希望他为她祈祷。门里传来一个愤怒的回答：‘应该是她为我祈祷才对！’” “我转身离开。正走着，一个老妇人从屋里出来，问道：‘你是刚才跟Abū ʿAbd Allāh说话的人吗？’” “‘是的。’” “‘我刚才听见他为她祈祷。’” “我急忙赶回家。敲门时，我的母亲自己走着出来开门，说：‘真主治好了我！’” [Ibrāhīm ibn Hāniʾ]：一个织工某某（他曾向Abū ʿAbd Allāh租房）告诉我：“有一次我生病，整夜呻吟不止。半夜时，Aḥmad出来说：‘那边是谁在痛苦呻吟？’” 61.5

“I told him I lived in the neighborhood and my mother was an invalid who couldn’t walk and wanted him to pray for her. Through the door came an angry reply: ‘She’s the one who should be praying for me!’ “I turned away. As I was leaving an old woman came out of the house and said, ‘Are you the one who was talking to Abū ʿAbd Allāh?’ “‘Yes.’ “‘I just heard him praying for her.’ “I rushed home. When I knocked on the door, my mother came out walking on her own two feet to open it, saying, ‘God cured me!’” [Ibrāhīm ibn Hāniʾ]: So-and-So the weaver, who rented from Abū ʿAbd Allāh, told me: “Once when I was sick I kept moaning all night. In the middle of the night Aḥmad came out and said, ‘Who’s that in pain over there?’ 61.5

“他们告诉了他，于是他为我祈祷。‘主啊，治好他吧！’他说完便又回到屋里去了。疼痛顿时停止了，就像有人向火上泼了水一样。”[法蒂玛：]我的哥哥萨利赫家里失火了。他娶了一户富裕人家的女儿，对方送来的嫁妆看上去价值四千迪拉姆，可这一切都化为了灰烬。萨利赫说：“我唯一在乎的是失去了父亲祈祷时穿的那件长袍。我过去常穿着它祈求福佑，并在其中礼拜。”61.6

“They told him, and he prayed for me. ‘God, cure him!’ he said, and went back inside. The pain suddenly stopped, as if someone had poured water on a fire.” [Fāṭimah:] My brother Ṣāliḥ had a fire in his house. He’d married into a wealthy family who sent over a dowry that looked like it was worth four thousand dirhams, but all of it went up in smoke. Ṣāliḥ said, “All I care about is losing the robe that my father used to wear when he prayed. I liked to put it on for a blessing and pray in it.” 61.6

火被扑灭后，他们又进去了。在床上，他们发现了那件长袍。

When the fire was put out, they went back in. On the bed they found the robe.

周围的一切都已烧成灰烬，唯独那件袍子完好无损。

Everything around it had burned up but the robe was unharmed.

[作者:]我从首席法官阿里·伊本·侯赛因·扎因拜·拉扎因拜(ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al- Zaynabī)那里听到过一个类似的故事。他的房子失火,屋里的一切都烧光了,只剩下一本书,书里有一些艾哈迈德(Aḥmad)的文字。61.7

[The author:] I heard a similar story from the chief judge, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al- Zaynabī. He had a fire and everything in the house burned up except a book that had some of Aḥmad’s writing in it. 61.7

至于我自己，当巴格达于554年（公元1159–60年）遭受水灾，我的书籍毁于一旦时，其中幸免于难的一卷里，有两张纸是艾哈迈德的笔迹。

As for myself, when Baghdad was flooded in 554 [1159–60] and my books were ruined, one thing that was spared was a volume containing two sheets in Aḥmad’s handwriting.

[Al-Lakkāf:] 逊尼派的良善之人阿卜杜拉·伊本·穆萨告诉我：“有一个漆黑的夜晚，我父亲和我出门去拜访艾哈迈德，但天太黑，什么也看不见。我父亲说：‘让我们呼求真主，以祂的善良仆人艾哈迈德的名义，请祂为我们照亮道路。三十年来，我以他的名义所求的一切都已蒙应允。’我父亲祈祷，我说‘阿敏’。天空便亮了起来，宛如月夜一般，并一直保持到我们抵达。”61.8

[Al-Lakkāf:] ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mūsā, who was a good Sunni, told me: “One dark night, my father and I went out to visit Aḥmad, but it got too dark to see. My father said, ‘Let’s call on God, invoking His righteous servant Aḥmad, and ask Him to light our way. For thirty years, everything I’ve asked for in his name has been granted.’ My father prayed and I said ‘Amen.’ The sky lit up as if it were a moonlit night and stayed that way until we arrived.” 61.8

[阿尔-拉齐:] 我们一行人陪同艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒走到穆台瓦基勒的宫门前。他从近侍门被引入,但进去之前他说:"你们都可以回去了。愿真主保佑你们健康!"61。9

[Al-Rāzī:] A group of us accompanied Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal as far as al- Mutawakkil’s gate. He was admitted at the Intimates’ Gate, but before going in, he said, “All of you can go back now. May God keep you in health!” 61.9

自那天起，我们中没有一人生病过。

Since that day, not one of us has fallen ill.