[Abū Yūsuf:] 我曾听艾哈迈德说：“进食有三种方式：与朋友同食为了享受，与穷人同食为了施舍，与俗世之人同食则出于义务。” 32。1

[Abū Yūsuf:] I once heard Aḥmad say, “There are three ways to eat: with friends for pleasure, with the poor in charity, and with worldly men out of duty.” 32.1

[Al-Marrūdhī:] 我听到艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒说："任何事物都可以高贵。人的心若接受真主的安排，它便是高贵的。"181 32.2

[Al-Marrūdhī:] I heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal say, “Anything can be noble. A person’s heart is noble when it accepts God’s will.”181 32.2

[伊本·阿卜德·阿齐兹：]我曾亲眼见到al-Muṭīʿ li-Llāh 182站在讲坛上，试图争取一群约三万名的罕百里派信徒，他们都注视着他。他说："我曾听我的老师伊本·宾特·马尼ʿ说，他听艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒说：'当一个人的朋友死去时，他的地位便会下降。'"32。3

[Ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz:] I once saw al-Muṭīʿ li-Llāh 182 on the pulpit trying to win over a crowd of Ḥanbalīs—maybe thirty thousand—who were looking at him. He said, “I heard my teacher Ibn Bint Manīʿ say that he heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal say, ‘When a man’s friends die he comes down in the world.’” 32.3

[伊斯梅尔·本·阿拉厄:] 我应邀前往赖兹格·安拉·卡拉瓦兹，他为我们准备了大量食物。艾哈迈德·本·罕百勒、叶海亚·本·穆因和艾布·凯斯马等人也在场。当主人端上杏仁酥卷时183

[Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ:] I accepted an invitation from Rizq Allāh al-Kalawādhī, who served us a great deal of food. Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Abū Khaythmah, and some others were there as well. When our host presented an almond pastry roll183

那东西花了他八十迪拉姆，阿布·海赛姆惊呼道：“这太奢侈了！” 324

that had cost him eighty dirhams, Abū Khaythamah exclaimed, “That’s an extravagance!” 32.4

“不，并不是这样，”艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒说，“要是今世的东西能被揉成一个小球，让一个穆斯林喂给另一个穆斯林，那就不会有任何奢侈浪费了。”184

“No it isn’t,” said Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. “If only the things of this world could be folded up into a little ball that one Muslim could feed to another, there would be no extravagance involved.”184

“说得好，艾哈迈德，”叶海雅说。

“Well said, Aḥmad,” said Yaḥyā.

[贾法尔·萨伊格：] 艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒的一位邻居，过着罪恶和污秽的生活。一天，他走到艾哈迈德所在的地方，向他问候。艾哈迈德似乎向后缩了缩，只是勉强地回应了他的问候。

[Jaʿfar al-Ṣāyigh:] One of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal’s neighbors was a man who lived a life of sin and filth. One day he came over to where Aḥmad was sitting and greeted him. Aḥmad seemed to shrink away from the man and returned his greeting only halfheartedly.

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“不必躲着我，艾哈迈德。”那人说，“我已经戒掉了你看到我做的那些事——都是因为我做的一个梦。”“你梦见了什么？过来！”“我梦见先知ﷺ站在一座小山上，山脚下坐着许多人。他们一个接一个地起身，请他向真主祈祷，他也为他们祈祷了。很快，只剩下我一个人还坐着。我想站起来，却因为自己曾做过的丑事而羞愧难当。”

“No need to turn away from me, Aḥmad,” said the man. “I’ve given up those things you’ve seen me do—all because of a dream I had.” “What did you dream? Come over here!” “I dreamed I saw the Prophet, God bless and keep him, standing on a sort of hill with a lot of people sitting at the bottom. One by one they got up and asked him to pray for them, and he did. Soon I was the only one left. I tried to get up, but I was too ashamed at the ugly things I had been doing.

“你！”先知说，“你为什么不起来，请我为你祈祷？” “真主的使者，”我回答，“我太惭愧了。” “如果你还知道羞耻，”他说，“你就起来吧。你若请求我，我会为你祈祷，因为你从未咒骂过我的任何一位同伴。” 于是我起身，他为我祈祷。随后我醒来，感到真主使我厌恶了自己过去的生活。 “贾法尔！”艾哈迈德大声呼唤我，然后又对在场的其他人说，“你，还有你！出去把这个故事讲述出去，不要忘记。听到它会对人们有益。” [阿玛尔·伊本·拉贾ʾ：]我听艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒说：“尽可能追溯到最高权威来传述圣训，这是一个好的做法。”185 32.6

“‘You there!’ said the Prophet. ‘Why don’t you get up and ask me to pray for you?’ “‘Emissary of God,’ I answered, ‘I’m too ashamed.’ “‘If you can feel shame,’ he said, ‘you can get up, and if you ask me I’ll pray for you, since you’ve never cursed any of my Companions.’ “So I got up and he prayed for me. Then I woke up, feeling that God had made my past life hateful to me.” “Jaʿfar!” cried Aḥmad, calling out to me, and then to the others present. “You, and you! Go out and repeat this story, and don’t forget it. It will do people good to hear it.” [ʿAmmār ibn Rajāʾ:] I heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal say, “It’s a good practice to seek the highest possible authority for your reports.”185 32.6

[ḥarb ibn Ismāʿīl:] 当被问及寻求更高权威的做法时,艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒说,这是前代学者的惯常做法。"即便是那些从伊本·欧麦尔的儿子阿卜杜拉那里听过圣训的人,也会从库法一路赶回麦地那,向欧麦尔求学,并从他那里听取同样的圣训。" 32.7

[Ḥarb ibn Ismāʿīl:] Asked about seeking higher authority, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said that it was a practice of previous generations of scholars. “Even the people who heard reports from ʿAbd Allāh, the son of ʿUmar, would travel all the way from Kufa back to Medina to study with ʿUmar and hear the same reports from him.” 32.7

[Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq:] 艾哈迈德·本·罕百勒曾见我用很小的字迹书写，便说：“不要这样写；当你最需要读你所写的东西时，可能就读不出来了。” 32.8

[Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal once saw me writing in a very small hand and said, “Don’t do that; when you most need to read what you’ve written, you might not be able to.” 32.8

[Al-Maymūnī:] 我问艾哈迈德，我应当采用哪一种《古兰经》诵读版本。329

[Al-Maymūnī:] I asked Aḥmad which reading of the Qurʾan I should use. 32.9

“这是阿布·阿慕尔·本·阿拉厄的读法，”他回答道，“这是古莱氏的语言，也是发音最为清晰的圣门弟子的语言。”伊斯哈格·本·哈桑说：“我写信给艾哈迈德，请教他关于婚姻的意见。他回信说：‘娶一个处女，并确保她的母亲已经去世。’”32。10

“The reading of Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ,” he replied. “It’s in the speech of Quraysh and the Companions who had the clearest pronunciation.” Isḥāq ibn Ḥassān said: “I wrote to Aḥmad asking his advice on marriage. He wrote, ‘Marry a virgin and make sure her mother is dead.’” 32.10

Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Jaʿfar 传述：艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒对他的两个儿子说："你们把所有来为你们送行、前去朝觐的人都列一份名单。等他们回来时，我们去迎接他们归来。" 32.11

Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Jaʿfar reported that Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal told his two sons, “Make a list of everyone who came to say good-bye when they went on the pilgrimage. When they return, we’ll go and welcome them back.” 32.11

伊本·阿奇勒评论说，伊本·罕百勒这样做并非出于骄傲，而是为了维持他的学术联系。

Ibn ʿAqil commented that Ibn Ḥanbal did this not out of pride but in order to keep up his scholarly connections.