Ṣāliḥ，号Abū l-Faḍl，是艾哈迈德众子女中最年长的一位。他生于203年［818–819年］。他的父亲非常疼爱他，待他慷慨厚道。由于年纪尚轻便已家累繁重，Ṣāliḥ未能像他本可以那样传述父亲的那么多圣训，不过他仍传述了不少，并且还传述了他从Abū l-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī、Ibrāhīm ibn al-Faḍl al-Dhāriʿ（意为“量器的取用者”）328以及ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī处所闻的圣训。从他那里转述圣训的人有他的儿子Zuhayr、al-Baghawī、Muḥammad ibn Makhlad等。他在被任命为伊斯法罕法官后迁居该地，并在那里去世。65。1

Ṣālih, who was called Abū l-Faḍl, was the oldest of Aḥmad’s children. He was born in 203 [818–19]. His father loved him and treated him generously. Burdened with children when he was still young, Ṣāliḥ was unable to transmit as many of his father’s reports as he might have, though he still transmitted quite a few, along with reports he learned from Abū l-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Faḍl al-Dhāriʿ (the taker of measures),328 and ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī. Transmitting in turn from him were his son Zuhayr, al-Baghawī, and Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, among others. He moved to Isfahan after being appointed judge there, and there he died. 65.1

[Al-Khallāl:] 署ālih 一向乐于花钱。Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī l-Faqīh 在 Miṣṣīṣah 告诉我，Ṣāliḥ 曾经放过血，之后他邀请朋友们庆祝他康复。他大概在香水之类的东西上花了二十第纳尔。65。2

[Al-Khallāl:] Ṣāliḥ was always eager to spend money. Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī l-Faqīh told me in Miṣṣīṣah that Ṣāliḥ once had his blood let and afterward invited his friends to celebrate his recovery. He must have spent twenty dinars on scent and that sort of thing. 65.2

我想，也是阿尔-哈桑告诉我了下面这段话。

I think it was also al-Ḥasan who told me the following.

有一次,艾哈迈德敲了门。客人之一伊本·阿比·马尔亚姆对萨利赫说:"把那道帘子放下来,免得我们惹你父亲生气!也别让他闻到香味!"艾哈迈德进来坐下,问萨利赫身体怎么样。然后他说:"拿着这两迪尔汗,今天自己花用吧。"说完,他站起身离开了。

At one point Aḥmad knocked on the door. One of the guests, Ibn Abī Maryam, said to Ṣāliḥ, “Let down that curtain so we don’t get in trouble with your father! And don’t let him smell the scent!” Aḥmad came in, sat down, and asked Ṣāliḥ how he was feeling. Then he said, “Here, take these two dirhams and spend them on yourself today.” With that, he got up and left.

“你这个某某！”伊本·阿比·马尔yam对萨利赫说，“你怎么会想到去拿那些银币？”[穆罕默德·伊本·阿里：]萨利赫抵达伊斯法罕时，我正与他在一起。他首先去的地方是主麻清真寺，在那里礼了两拜。然后，当名流和长者们聚集起来时，他坐下来聆听哈里发授予他的任命书。信件宣读时，他忍不住痛哭起来。很快，坐在他附近的长者们也跟着哭了。宣读完毕后，他们为他大声祈祷。“我们镇上的每个人都怀念阿布·阿卜杜拉的为人，”他们对他说，“并祝您一切安好。” 65.3

“You so-and-so!” said Ibn Abī Maryam to Ṣāliḥ. “How could you think of taking those dirhams?” [Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī:] I was with Ṣāliḥ when he arrived in Isfahan. The first place he went was the Friday mosque, where he prayed two cycles. Then, when the notables and elders had gathered, he sat down to hear the letter of appointment that the caliph had given him. As the letter was being read he began to weep uncontrollably. Soon the elders sitting near him were weeping as well. When the reading was finished, they prayed aloud for him. “Everyone in our town treasures the memory of Abū ʿAbd Allāh,” they told him, “and wishes you the best.” 65.3

“你们知道我为什么哭吗？”他问他们，“我想象着父亲看到我这副模样——也就是身穿他那黑色官袍的样子。每当有衣衫褴褛的苦行者来拜访父亲，父亲总会叫我过去与他相见。他希望我成为那样的人，或者至少看起来像那样。真主为我作证，我别无选择，只能接受这个职位：我有债务要还，还要养活父亲所有的孩子。”329

“Do you know,” he asked them, “why I’m crying? I imagined my father seeing me like this”—dressed, that is, in the black robes of his office. “Whenever a shabby ascetic would come to visit him, my father would send for me so I could meet him. He wanted me to be like that—or look like that. As God is my witness, I had no choice but to take this position: I have a debt to pay and all my father’s children to feed.”329

多次，每当他离开审判庭、脱下黑色长袍时，Ṣāliḥ对我说："你想想看：我可能会穿着这身衣服死去！"Ṣāliḥ于伊历265年斋月（公元879年4月至5月）在伊斯法罕去世。

More than once, as he left the judicial session and removed his black robe, Ṣāliḥ said to me, “Just think: I might die in these clothes!” Ṣāliḥ died in Ramaḍān 265 [April–May 879] in Isfahan.

他的儿子祖海尔转述过他的圣训，而祖海尔的圣训又由他的侄子穆罕默德·本·艾哈迈德·本·萨利赫和艾哈迈德·本·苏莱曼·安-纳贾贾德转述。达拉古特尼称祖海尔为可靠者。据法官艾哈迈德·本·卡米勒所言，他卒于伊历303年第一个拉比尔月（公元915年9月至10月）。65.4

His son Zuhayr transmitted reports from him, and Zuhayr’s reports, in turn, were transmitted by his nephew Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣālih and by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Najjād. Al-Dāraquṭnī describes Zuhayr as reliable. According to Judge Aḥmad ibn Kāmil, he died in Rabīʿ I 303 [September–October 915]. 65.4

他号称艾布·贾法尔。他转述了从其父、其叔父祖海尔以及易卜拉欣·本·哈立德·希辛贾尼等人处所听闻的圣训。向他转述圣训的有达拉古during（达拉古特尼）等人。他卒于330年（公元941至942年）。享年65岁。5

Called Abū Jaʿfar, he transmitted reports he learned from his father, his uncle Zuhayr, and Ibrāhīm ibn Khālid al-Hisinjānī, among others. Transmitting in turn from him was al-Dāraquṭnī. He died in 330 [941–42]. 65.5

他的kunya为阿布·阿卜杜·拉赫曼，他转述其父所传圣训的数量超过任何其他人，并且听过其父的大部分著作和圣训。他还从阿卜杜·阿阿拉·伊本·哈马德、卡米勒·伊本·塔尔哈、雅哈亚·伊本·玛因、阿布·沙伊巴的两个儿子阿布·伯克尔和奥斯曼、沙伊班·伊本·法鲁赫以及其他许多人那里听过圣训。65。6

Called Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, he transmitted more of his father’s reports than anyone else, having heard most of his compilations and his Hadith. He also heard reports from ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād, Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Abū Shaybah’s sons Abū Bakr and ʿUthman, Shaybān ibn Farrūkh, and many others. 65.6

他的记忆力极强。他的父亲常说：“我儿子ʿAbd Allāh有学习圣训的天赋”——或说“记诵圣训的天赋”。在他临终的病中，有人问他希望葬在哪里。他回答说：“我确信在Qaṭīʿah某处埋葬着一位先知，我宁愿靠近一位先知，也不愿靠近我的父亲。”他于伊历290年Jumādā II月第二十一日（公历903年5月22日）星期日去世，当天傍晚葬于Straw Gate公墓。他的侄子Zuhayr在大批民众的参与下为他主持了殡礼。

He had a very retentive memory. His father used to say, “My son ʿAbd Allāh has a gift for learning”—or “memorizing”—“Hadith.” In his last illness, he was asked where he wanted to be buried. He replied, “I’m certain that there’s a prophet buried somewhere in the Qaṭīʿah, and I’d rather be near a prophet than near my father.” He died on Sunday, the twenty-first of Jumādā II 290 [May 22, 903], and in the late afternoon was buried in the Straw Gate cemetery. His nephew Zuhayr prayed over him with a great crowd in attendance.

根据哈巴勒·本·易司哈格的说法，赛义德出生于艾哈迈德去世前约五十天。

According to Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq, Saʿīd was born about fifty days before Aḥmad died.

据另一些人的说法，赛尔德被任命为库法的法官，并于303年（915–916年）去世。65。7

According to others, Saʿīd was appointed judge in Kufa and died in 303 [915– 16]. 65.7

[作者:] 这是不正确的。我引用了 Abū Manṣūr al-Qazzāz 的记载,他听 Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Thabit 说,Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal 讲述了他从 Abū Mujālid Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḍarīr 那里听来的圣训,而 Mūsā ibn al-Qāsim al-Ashyab 法官 Abū ʿImrān 也从他那里转述了圣训。Saʿīd 比他的兄弟 ʿAbd Allāh 去世早了很长一段时间。

[The author:] This is incorrect. I cite Abū Manṣūr al-Qazzāz, who reports hearing Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Thabit say that Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal repeated reports he had heard from Abū Mujālid Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḍarīr, and Judge Abū ʿImrān Mūsā ibn al-Qāsim al-Ashyab transmitted reports from him. Saʿīd died quite a long time before his brother ʿAbd Allāh.

我在关于赞扬艾哈迈德的学者的那一章中也提到，易卜拉欣·哈尔比曾拜访阿卜杜拉，向他慰问其兄弟赛义德的去世。

I have also mentioned, in the chapter on those learned men who praised Aḥmad, that Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī visited ʿAbd Allāh to express his condolences on the death of his brother Saʿīd.

关于al-Ḥasan和Muḥammad，我们没有任何信息。至于Zaynab，我们在关于Aḥmad虔敬谨慎的章节中已经叙述过这样一个故事：她对Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm说：“拿这只鸡去卖掉吧！我父亲需要拔火罐，但他没有钱。”Isḥāq说：“我看见Aḥmad打他的女儿，并因为她说阿拉伯语不地道而责备她。”330 65.8

Regarding al-Ḥasan and Muḥammad we have no information at all. As for Zaynab, we have reported, in the chapter on Aḥmad’s scrupulosity, the story where she tells Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm, “Take this chicken and sell it! My father needs a cupping but he has no money.” Said Isḥāq, “I saw Aḥmad beat his daughter and scold her for speaking bad Arabic.”330 65.8

[穆尔鲁迪：] 我进去见艾哈迈德，发现一个女人正在为他的一个女儿梳头。659

[Al-Marrūdhī:] I went in to see Aḥmad and found a woman there combing the hair of one of his daughters. 65.9

“你给她的头发扎上小辫子了吗？”我问那位女士。

“Have you put ties331 in her hair yet?” I asked the woman.

“她不让我，”对方回答道。“她说：‘我爸爸说我不能。’”“他会生气的，”那个女孩说。

“She won’t let me,” came the reply. “She said, ‘My daddy said I can’t.’” “He’d get mad,” said the girl.

据传艾哈迈德有一个名叫法蒂玛的女儿，显然与宰奈卜不是同一人。另一方面，前文引述的祖哈尔关于艾哈迈德子女数目的记载并未提及她。法蒂玛或许与宰奈卜是同一个人，因为女性有时会有两个名字；她也可能是另一个人。在关于艾哈迈德恩典显现的章节中，我们在这段记载里提到了法蒂玛。

It is reported that Aḥmad had a daughter named Fāṭimah, who is apparently someone other than Zaynab. On the other hand, Zuhayr’s report, cited earlier, on the number of Aḥmad’s children does not mention her. Fāṭimah may be the same person as Zaynab, since women sometimes have two names, or she may be someone else. In the chapter on Aḥmad’s manifestations of grace, we cited Fāṭimah in this report: