two hundred dirhams. I said, “That will not suffice me.” He replied, “Nothing else is on hand, but come—let me involve you in something (1). I shall give you three hundred for you to distribute.”

When I had taken them I said, “By Allah, I will not give anyone a single dirham of it,” whereupon he smiled.

ʿAbd Allāh said, “I never saw my father enter a bathhouse at all.”

Al-Khallāl relates: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥanbal narrated to us; my father told me:

“After Abū ʿAbd Allāh had been beaten and had recovered—his hand still aching from the irons with which he had been struck—people spoke to him about the bathhouse and repeatedly urged him to use it. He said to my father, ‘Abū Yūsuf, speak to the bathhouse keeper and have him clear it for me.’ My father did so, but then Aḥmad declined, saying, ‘I do not wish to enter the bathhouse.’”

Zuhayr ibn Ṣāliḥ reported: my father told us, “I often heard my father recite Sūrat al-Kahf, and I frequently heard him supplicate, ‘Allahumma sallim, sallim—O Allah, grant safety, grant safety.’”

He also narrated from Yūnus ibn Muḥammad, from Ḥammād ibn Zayd, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, that he too used to say, “Allahumma sallim, sallim.”

ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān informed us; Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us; Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad informed us; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad informed us; al-Mukhlis informed us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī narrated:

“I heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal in the year 228 AH. After he had transmitted the hadith concerning divine assistance (2) during tribulation, he was heard saying, ‘Allahumma raḍinā, Allahumma raḍinā—O Allah, we are content, O Allah, we are content.’”