[伊本·阿什阿思]：我从未听见艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒提起今世的事物。441

[Ibn al-Ashʿath:] I don’t think I ever heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal mention the things of this world. 44.1

[ʿUmar ibn Sulaymān:] 我与艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒一同做了斋月的夜间拜，由伊本·欧迈尔领拜。他做额外的夜间拜时，双手交叠放在胸前。他和清真寺里的其他人念得非常轻，以致我听不清他们念的任何内容。清真寺里没有吊灯、席子或熏香，只有一盏灯放在台阶上。44.2

[ʿUmar ibn Sulaymān:] I performed the Ramadan nighttime prayers with Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, led by Ibn ʿUmayr. When he performed his additional night prayer, he clasped his hands to his chest. He and the others at the mosque prayed so softly that I couldn’t hear anything they said. The mosque had no hanging lamps,229 mats, or incense230—only a lamp placed on the step. 44.2

[Al-Samarqandī:] 我曾问过艾布·穆罕默德·阿卜杜拉·伊本·阿卜杜勒·拉赫曼关于艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒的事。443

[Al-Samarqandī:] I once asked Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān about Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. 44.3

“他是一个榜样吗？”“确实是，以真主起誓！他忍受贫困长达七十年！”[Ṣāliḥ：]我曾对父亲说：“我听说艾哈迈德·达武拉基得到了一千第纳尔。”44。4

“Is he an exemplar?” “Indeed he was, by God: he suffered poverty for seventy years!” [Ṣāliḥ:] I once said to my father, “I heard that Aḥmad al-Dawraqī got a thousand dinars.” 44.4

他回答道：«你们主的给予更好，也更持久。»231

He replied: «The provision of your Lord is better and more lasting.»231

我还提到了伊本·艾比·设巴（Ibn Abī Shaybah）、阿卜杜·勒-阿阿拉·纳尔西（ʿAbd al-Aʿlā l-Narsī）以及其他被带到萨马拉的圣训学者。

I also mentioned Ibn Abī Shaybah, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā l-Narsī, and the other Hadith-men who had been taken to Samarra.

“没过多久，”他说，“他们所有人就争先恐后地去那里，但没有一个人从中得到多少。”另一次，有人被描述为成功，我父亲说：“孩子，成功就是最终成功，而不欠任何人的情。”[伊本·阿布·卡都尔：]物价高昂的时候，艾哈迈德会拿着织好的布来找我，他把布藏在身上，让我替他卖掉。有时我能卖得一个半迪拉姆，有时能卖得两个迪拉姆。有一天，他没有来看我。第二天，我问：“艾哈迈德，你昨天去哪儿了？”44.5

“It didn’t take long,” he said, “before all of them started climbing over each other to go there, but none of them got much out of it.” On another occasion, when someone was described as successful, my father said, “Son, success means being successful in the end without owing anything to anybody.” [Ibn Abī l-Qudūr:] When prices were high, Aḥmad would come to me with woven cloth which he would hide on his person and have me sell for him. Sometimes I would get a dirham and a half for it and sometimes two dirhams. One day he didn’t come to see me. The next day, I said, “Aḥmad, where were you yesterday?” 44.5

“Umm Ṣāliḥ”生病了。他给了我一些编织布，我把它卖了四枚迪拉姆。我把钱拿给他时，他不喜欢这样做。 Wait, that rendering is inaccurate in the last sentence. Corrected translation: “Umm Ṣāliḥ”生病了。他给了我一些编织布，我卖了四枚迪拉姆。我把钱拿给他时，他并不高兴。

“Umm Ṣāliḥ was sick.” He gave me some woven cloth, which I sold for four dirhams. When I brought it to him, he didn’t like it.

“你没有投入自己的任何钱吧？”他问道。

“You didn’t add any of your own money, did you?” he asked.

“不，”我回答道，“那布织得很细密。”[Ṣāliḥ：]我父亲说：“物价高的时候，你母亲会织细布。她能卖到约四个半密斯qāl，卖得大约两迪拉姆，我们就靠这个过活。”44.6

“No,” I replied. “It was finely woven.” [Ṣāliḥ:] My father said, “When prices were high, your mother would weave fine cloth. She’d sell four and a half mithqāls232 for about two dirhams, and that’s how we’d eat.” 44.6

我的父亲曾在我们装了新天花板之后走进我家。他把我叫过去,口述了以下这段传述:"我们听苏莱曼·本·哈尔卜说,他听哈马德·本·赛lama说,他引用尤努斯,尤努斯引用哈桑,说艾哈纳夫·本·盖斯从旅途归来,发现人们给他的房屋换了新屋顶,并把一些木板漆成了红色和绿色。233 他们让他去看,他说:'很抱歉我没有注意到。不管怎样,在你们把它改回来之前,我不会进去。'" "我买了一名女奴,我的妻子就此向他抱怨。他说:'我一直尽力让他们远离今世的事物。但我没有听说你们也是如此。'" "我的妻子说:'除了你,还有谁讨厌拥有钱财吗?'" "那你自己去处理她吧。"他回答道。234

My father once came into my house after we had put in a new ceiling. He called me over and dictated the following report: “We heard Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb report that he heard Ḥammād ibn Salamah report, citing Yūnus, citing al-Ḥasan, that al-Aḥnaf ibn Qays returned from a journey to find that they had put a new roof on his house and painted some of the planks red and green.233 They told him to look at it, and he said, ‘I’m sorry I didn’t notice. Anyway, I can’t come in until you change it.’ “When I bought a slave woman, my wife complained to him about it. He said, ‘I’ve always tried to keep them away from the things of this world. But I haven’t heard the same about you.’ “My wife said, ‘Is there anyone besides you who hates having money?’ “‘Deal with her yourself, then,’ he replied.234

“我们常常买些东西，然后藏起来，免得他发现并责备我们。”[穆尔祖希：] 当我们在萨迈拉时，艾哈迈德·伊本·尔萨·米斯里以及其他一些圣训学者来拜访艾哈迈德。44。7

“We often bought things and hid them so he wouldn’t find out about them and rebuke us.” [Al-Marrūdhī:] When we were in Samarra, Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā l-Miṣrī and a number of other Hadith-men came to see Aḥmad. 44.7

“你为什么看起来这么不高兴？”阿勒-米斯里问道，“伊斯兰是唯一的真道，没有严苛，也没有束缚，其中有容纳每一个人的空间。”躺着的艾哈迈德只是盯着他们看。等他们离开后，他说：“你看见他们了吗？我不想让他们中的任何一个再进到这里来。”235

“Why do you look so upset?” asked al-Miṣrī. “Islam is the one true faith, without harshness or constraint, and there’s room in it for everyone.” Aḥmad, who was lying down, simply stared at them. After they had left, he said, “Did you see them? I don’t want any of them in here again.”235

[Al-Naysābūrī:] 艾哈迈德曾对我说："某个早晨你早点过来，我们互相核对一下各自的《Renunciation》抄本。" 44.8

[Al-Naysābūrī:] Aḥmad once said to me, “Some morning, come by early and we’ll compare our copies of Renunciation.” 44.8

那天清晨，我去拜见他。我请他儿子的母亲拿来一张席子和一个枕头，把它们铺在会客室里。然后艾哈迈德拿着书和墨水瓶走了出来。他看到席子和枕头，问道：“这是什么？”“给您坐的。”我说。

So I went to see him early one morning. I asked his son’s mother236 to bring me a mat and a pillow, and I put them out in the anteroom. Then Aḥmad came out with the book and his inkpot. When he saw the mat and the pillow, he said, “What’s this?” “For you to sit on,” I said.

“拿走吧，”他说，“我们研究弃世，却不能不弃世。”于是我把东西拿走了，艾哈迈德就坐到了地上。

“Take it away,” he said. “We can’t study renunciation without renouncing.” So I took the things away and Aḥmad sat down on the ground.

[Al-Sarī ibn Muḥammad:] 有一天，艾哈迈德的孙子过来帮他做小净（wudu）。他看见祖父拿了一块湿布敷在头上，便问他是不是发烧了。44.9

[Al-Sarī ibn Muḥammad:] One day Aḥmad’s grandson came over to help him with his ablutions.237 Seeing that his grandfather had taken a wet rag and put it on his head, he asked him if he had a fever. 44.9

“我会因为什么而发烧呢？”他回答道。238

“What would I get a fever from?” he replied.238

[伊本·哲拉赫:] 我曾站在艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒家的门前，门半掩着，我听见他儿子的母亲对他说：“我和你一起受苦，可萨利赫家里却有吃不完的东西。”诸如此类。4410

[Ibn Jabalah:] I was at Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal’s front door, which was ajar, and I heard his son’s mother239 telling him, “Here I am suffering with you, but over at Ṣālīḥ’s house they’ve got plenty to eat,” and so on and so forth. 44.10

“不要说人坏话，”他总是这样对她说。

“Speak no ill,” he kept telling her.

当他出来时，他的小儿子跟着他出来，并开始哭了起来。

When he came out, his little boy came out with him and began crying.

“你想要什么？”他问道。

“What do you want?” he asked him.

“葡萄干！”男孩喊道。

“Raisins!” cried the boy.

“去告诉杂货商，”艾哈迈德说，“让他给你一颗哈白巴的量。”240

“Go tell the grocer,” said Aḥmad, “to give you a ḥabbah’s worth.”240

[Hāniʾ:] 当艾哈迈德从萨马拉返回时，他吩咐我去浴室，请浴室的主人为他清空场所。于是我去询问，那人同意了。我回去告诉艾哈迈德，他说：“我已经五十年没有进过浴室了。现在我也不必去了。告诉他重新开门吧。”我便照做了。44。11

[Hāniʾ:] When he returned from Samarra, Aḥmad told me to go to the bathhouse and ask the man who ran it to clear the place for him. So I went and asked, and the man agreed. I went back and told Aḥmad, who said, “It’s been fifty years since I’ve entered a bathhouse.241 I might as well not go now, either. Tell him to open it up again.” So I did. 44.11

[Ṣāliḥ:] 我父亲过去在家里自己脱毛。一个冬天的日子，他说："日落之后我想去澡堂，所以你去告诉老板。" 44.12

[Ṣāliḥ:] My father used to depilate himself at home. One winter day he said, “After sunset I want to go to the bathhouse, so go tell the owner.” 44.12

但是日落之后，他说：“告诉他我改变主意了。”然后他在家中自行脱去了体毛。

But after sunset, he said, “Let him know I’ve changed my mind,” and depilated himself at home.

[ʿAbd Allāh:] 有一天，我和父亲坐在一起，他看了看我的脚，我的脚底光滑，没有裂纹。4413

[ʿAbd Allāh:] One day when I was sitting with my father he looked at my feet, which were smooth and had no cracks on the soles. 44.13

“看看那双脚！”他说，“你为什么不赤脚走路，让它们变得结实些？” [ 阿勒-马鲁兹ī：] 我听见艾哈迈德对舒贾ʿ·伊本·马赫拉德·阿特塔尔说：“我吃什么、穿什么，有什么区别呢？反正很快都会过去的。”44.14

“Look at those feet!” he said. “Why don’t you walk barefoot and toughen them up?”[ Al-Marrūdhī:] I heard Aḥmad say to Shujāʿ ibn Makhlad al-ʿAṭṭār, “What difference does it make what I eat or what I wear? It will all be over soon enough.” 44.14

[Al-Marrūdhī:] 我听到艾哈迈德说：“我最快乐的日子，是醒来时家里一无所有。” 44.15

[Al-Marrūdhī:] I heard Aḥmad say, “My happiest days are when I wake up with nothing in the house.” 44.15