我们引述的是：ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī l-Qāsim al-Karūkhī，他引述ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī，后者引述Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥāfiẓ，后者引述Abū Bakr ibn Abī l-Faḍl al-Muʿaddal，而他是从Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣarrām处学得的；此外，我们还引述：ʿAbd al-Malik引述ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad，后者引述Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Mihrawī，而他是从Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb处学得的，此人是Būshanj的公证见证人；他从Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib ibn al-ʿAbbās处学得，而后者与al-Ṣarrām一道，引述Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq al-Ghasīlī说：1.1

We cite ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī l-Qāsim al-Karūkhī, who cites ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī, who cites Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥāfiẓ, who cites Abū Bakr ibn Abī l- Faḍl al-Muʿaddal,2 who learned it from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣarrām; and3 we cite ʿAbd al-Malik, who cites ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, who cites Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Mihrawī,4 who learned it from Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb, the notary-witness of Būshanj, who learned it from Muḥammad ibn al- Ṭayyib ibn al-ʿAbbās, who [along with al-Ṣarrām] cites Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq al-Ghasīlī as saying: 1.1

[Al-Ghasīlī:] 我听到艾哈迈德之子萨利赫说，他的父亲——即艾哈迈德本人——生于希贾历164年（即公元780年11月至12月），当时他的母亲怀着他，离开了马尔夫。

[Al-Ghasīlī:] I heard Aḥmad’s son Ṣāliḥ say that he—meaning his father—was born in Rabīʿ I 164 [November–December 780], having left Marv5 carried in his mother’s womb.

[艾哈迈德：] 我生于回历164年 拉比尔·阿瓦勒月。1.2

[Aḥmad:] I was born in Rabīʿ I 164. 1.2

[Aḥmad:] 我出生于164年。1.3

[Aḥmad:] I was born in the year 164. 1.3

[阿吉里:] 艾哈迈德之子穆罕默德之子罕百勒,号阿布·阿卜杜拉(阿卜杜拉之父),是萨杜斯部族的纯血后裔。6 该家族最初定居于巴士拉,后迁居呼罗珊,7 但艾哈迈德生于巴格达,并在那里长大。他作为圣训传述者可靠可信,并精通以圣训为法律依据的运用。他追寻先贤的相关记载,并依循其榜样生活。他是一位善良而高尚的人。1.4

[Al-ʿIjlī:] Aḥmad son of Muḥammad son of Ḥanbal, called Abū ʿAbd Allāh (the father of ʿAbd Allāh), was a full-blooded member of the clan of Sadūs.6 The family had settled first in Basra and later in Khurasan,7 but Aḥmad was born and raised in Baghdad. He was trustworthy and reliable as a transmitter of Hadith reports, and was skilled in using them as a source of law. He sought out reports about the early Muslims and lived according to their example. He was a good and honorable man. 1.4

[Aḥmad:] 我的母亲怀着我从呼罗珊来。我出生于一六四年。1.5

[Aḥmad:] My mother was pregnant with me when she came from Khurasan.8 I was born in 164. 1.5

Abū Zurʿah：艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒的家族originally来自巴士拉，但他们的定居之地是麦尔夫。1. Correction to be faithful: Abū Zurʿah：艾哈迈德·伊本·罕百勒的家族originally来自巴士拉，但他们的定居之地是麦尔夫。1.6

[Abū Zurʿah:] Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal’s family came from Basra but their district of settlement was Marv. 1.6

[Ṣāliḥ:] 我听父亲说，他生于164年，年初，在Rabīʿ I月。他是在母亲腹中从Marv被带来的。他父亲去世时他三十岁，照顾他的责任便落在了他母亲身上。

[Ṣāliḥ:] I heard my father say that he was born in 164, toward the beginning of the year, in Rabīʿ I. He was brought from Marv in his mother’s womb. His father died when he was thirty and the task of caring for him fell upon his mother.

[作者:] 这里的"Ṣāliḥ"是指艾哈迈德的父亲在三十岁时去世,那时艾哈迈德还是个孩子。这一点从下面这段记载中可以清楚看出:

[The author:] By this Ṣāliḥ means that Aḥmad’s father died at the age of thirty, when Aḥmad was a child. So much is clear from the following report:

【Aḥmad:】我是在胎中被从呼罗珊带来的，在巴格达出生。我从未认识过我的父亲，也从未认识过我的祖父。

[Aḥmad:] I was brought from Khurasan as an unborn child, and I was born here in Baghdad. I never knew my father or my grandfather.

[伊本·哈提姆:] 艾哈迈德·伊本·穆罕默德·伊本·罕百勒出身于马尔夫。他还在母亲腹中时就离开了马尔夫。他的祖父罕百勒·伊本·希拉勒曾任萨拉赫斯的总督，是在革命期间为阿拔斯王朝而战之人的后裔。9 10 1。7

[Ibn Ḥātim:] Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥanbal was from Marv. He left Marv as a child in his mother’s womb. His grandfather, Ḥanbal ibn Hilāl, was governor of Sarakhs9 and a descendant of the men who fought for the Abbasids during the revolution.10 1.7

[艾哈迈德：]来自木鹿的哈桑·本·叶哈亚向我报告说，他听奥斯·本·阿卜杜拉·本·布赖达报告，其兄萨赫勒·本·阿卜杜拉·本·布赖达报告，引述其父，其父又引述其祖父布赖达：

[Aḥmad:] Al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā, who was from Marv, reported to me that he heard Aws ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Buraydah report that his brother Sahl ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Buraydah reported, citing his father, who reported it citing the grandfather, Buraydah:

“我听先知（愿真主赐福于他并使他平安）说：‘我死后将有许多远征队被派出。你们要加入派往呼罗珊的那一支，并定居于木鹿城。该城由Dhū l-Qarnayn所建，他祈求真主赐福于它，居住在其中的人不会遭遇任何伤害。’”11 1.8

“I heard the Emissary, God bless and keep him, say, ‘After I die many expeditions will be sent forth. Join the one sent to Khurasan and settle in the city of Marv. It was built by Dhū l-Qarnayn, who asked God to bless it, and no harm befalls its inhabitants.’”11 1.8