我们的榜样艾哈迈德——愿真主喜悦他——不相信著书立说。

Our exemplar Aḥmad—God be pleased with him—did not believe in writing books.

他禁止任何人记录他所说的话，也禁止记录他对法律问题的回答。163 如果他持有不同的看法，他本可以编纂许多著作，并拥有大量的著述。因此，他的著作多为圣训汇编，例如《按传述人列出的可靠圣训》，其中包含三万条圣训。164 他常对他的儿子阿卜杜拉说：“好好保存那部《可靠圣训》，因为人们将来会需要它。”他还编纂了《古兰经注释》，其中包含十二万条圣训，165 《古兰经中的废止与被废止的经文》，166 《确定年代》，167 《舒尔巴所传的圣训》。168

He forbade anyone to write down what he said or to record his replies to legal questions.163 Had he believed otherwise, he would have generated many compilations and had many had many writings to his credit. His works are therefore compilations of Hadith reports, such as the Authenticated Reports Listed by Transmitter, which contains thirty thousand reports.164 He used to tell his son ʿAbd Allāh: “Take good care of that Authenticated Reports because people will need it.” He also compiled the Interpretation of the Qurʾan, which contains 120,000 reports,165 The Abrogating and Abrogated Verses of the Qurʾan,166 Fixing of Dates,167 Hadith Reports Transmitted by Shuʿbah,168

《古兰经》中的换位表达，关于《古兰经》的解答，《大朝觐典礼书》，《小朝觐典礼书》，以及其他书名。169 27.1

Transposed Elements in the Qurʾan, Answers Regarding the Qurʾan, The Greater Book on Pilgrimage Rites, The Lesser Book on Pilgrimage Rites, and other titles.169 27.1

虽然艾哈迈德不允许任何人记录他所说的话，但真主仍让他实现了自己的善意愿望，确保他的言论得以流传和保存。在几乎每一个问题上，他都留下了相关的论述，无论是关于法理学原则还是具体的律法条文。许多情况下，他的贡献得以保存下来，而那些曾经著书立说、积累文献的法学家的著作反而佚失了。27.2

Although Aḥmad did not allow anyone to write down what he said, God nevertheless allowed him to fulfill his benevolent intentions by ensuring that his words were transmitted and preserved. Few indeed are the questions where he has not contributed a relevant text, whether on the principles of jurisprudence or on specific points of law. In many cases, his contribution has been preserved, whereas the work of jurists who did write and amass documents has been lost. 27.2

[ḤANBAL IBN ISḤĀQ:] 艾哈迈德·本·罕百勒召集了我们——我、萨利哈和阿卜杜拉——并为我们诵读了他的《圣训集》。我们是唯一从他那里听到这部书的人。他对我们说:“这是我从七十五万多条传述中筛选编纂而成的书。今后你们若发现穆斯林对先知的某段圣训有分歧，就查看这条传述是否收录在此书中。若不在其中，它就不能作为依据。”27.3

[Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal gathered us together—me, Ṣāliḥ, and ʿAbd Allāh—and read his Authenticated Reports to us. We are the only ones to have heard it from him. He told us, “This is a book I put together by sorting through more than 750,000 reports. Whenever you find Muslims disagreeing about a Hadith of the Emissary, check to see if the report is in here. If it’s not, it’s doesn’t count.” 27.3