Kitāb Nafī al-Tashbīh, a single volume; Kitāb al-Imāmah, a small separate volume; Kitāb al-Radd ʿalā al-Zanādiqah, in three parts; Kitāb al-Zuhd, a large tome; and Kitāb al-Risālah fī al-Ṣalāh (The Treatise on Prayer)—I say: this work is spuriously attributed to the Imām.
He added: and Kitāb Faḍāʾil al-Ṣaḥābah, one volume.
I say: it contains additions inserted by his son ʿAbd Allāh and by his associate Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī.
Moreover, his senior students recorded from him a vast number of legal questions, gathering them into several volumes. Among these disciples are al-Marūdhī, al-Athram, Harb, Ibn Hāniʾ, al-Kawsaj, Abū Ṭālib, Fūrān, Badr al-Maghāzilī, Abū Yaḥyā al-Nāqid, Yūsuf ibn Mūsā al-Harbī, ʿUbdūs al-ʿAṭṭār, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Mushayš, Yaʿqūb ibn Bukhtān, Muhannā al-Shāmī, Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad, his brother, and their cousin Ḥanbal; Abū al-Ḥārith Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣāʾigh; al-Faḍl ibn Ziyād; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Maymūnī; al-Ḥasan ibn Thawwāb; Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī; Hārūn al-Ḥammāl; the judge Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Birtī; Ayyūb ibn Isḥāq ibn Sāfirī; Hārūn al-Mustamlī; Bishr ibn Mūsā; Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim—the associate of Abū ʿUbayd—; Yaʿqūb ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Hāshimī; Ḥubaysh ibn Sindī; Abū al-Ṣaqr Yaḥyā ibn Yazdād al-Warrāq; Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Kaḥḥāl; Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb al-Bazzāz; Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Nahruṭīrī; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Wāṣil al-Muqriʾ; Aḥmad ibn Aṣram al-Muzanī; and ʿUbdūs al-Harbī—an early pupil who possesses nearly ten thousand of Aḥmad’s questions that he never narrated—together with Ibrāhīm al-Harbī; Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hārūn ibn Badīnā; and Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Hudhayl al-Kūfī—whom they used to compare, in standing, to Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr—along with Abū Shaybah Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Muṭayyan; and Jaʿfar ibn