The Life of Ibn Ḥanbal. Ibn al-Jawzi

8: His Powers of Retention and the Number of Reports He Knew by Heart

       Chapter 9: His Learning, His Intelligence, and His Religious Understanding

       Chapter 10: Praise of Him by His Teachers

       Chapter 11: Teachers and Senior Men of Learning Who Cite Him

       Chapter 12: All the Men of Learning Who Cite Him

       Chapter 13: Praise of Him by His Peers, His Contemporaries, and Those Close to Him in Age

       Chapter 14: Praise of Him by Prominent Successors Who Knew Him Well

       Chapter 15: A Report That the Prophet Elijah Sent Him Greetings

       Chapter 16: Reports That al-Khaḍir Spoke in His Praise

       Chapter 17: Praise of Him by Pious Strangers and Allies of God

       Chapter 18: Allies of God Who Visited Him to Seek His Blessing

       Chapter 19: His Fame

       Chapter 20: His Creed

       Chapter 21: His Insistence on Maintaining the Practices of the Early Muslims

       Chapter 22: His Reverence for Hadith Transmitters and Adherents of the Sunnah

       Chapter 23: His Shunning and Reviling of Innovators and His Forbidding Others to Listen to Them

       Chapter 24: His Seeking of Blessings and Cures Using the Qurʾan and Water from the Well of Zamzam, as Well as Some Hair and a Bowl That Belonged to the Prophet

       Chapter 25: His Age When He Began Teaching Hadith and Giving Legal Opinions

       Chapter 26: His Devotion to Learning and the Attitudes That Informed His Teaching

       Chapter 27: His Works

       Chapter 28: His Aversion to Writing Books Containing Opinions Reached through the Exercise of Independent Judgment at the Expense of Transmitted Knowledge

       Chapter 29: His Forbidding Others to Write Down or Transmit His Words

       Chapter 30: His Remarks on Sincerity, on Acting for the Sake of Appearances, and on Concealing One’s Pious Austerities

       Chapter 31: His Statements about Renunciation and Spiritual Weakness

       Chapter 32: His Remarks on Different Subjects

       Chapter 33: Poems He Recited or Had Attributed to Him

       Chapter 34: His Correspondence

       Chapter 35: His Appearance and Bearing

       Chapter 36: His Imposing Presence

       Chapter 37: His Cleanliness and Ritual Purity

       Chapter 38: His Kindness and His Consideration for Others

       Chapter 39: His Forbearance and His Readiness to Forgive

       Chapter 40: His Property and Means of Subsistence

       Chapter 41: His Refusal to Accept Help Even in Distress

       Chapter 42: His Generosity

       Chapter 43: His Accepting Gifts and Giving Gifts in Return

       Chapter 44: His Renunciation

       Chapter 45: His House and Furniture

       Chapter 46: His Diet

       Chapter 47: His Indulgences

       Chapter 48: His Clothing

       Chapter 49: His Scrupulosity

       Chapter 50: His Shunning Appointment to Positions of Authority

       Chapter 51: His Love of Poverty and His Affection for the Poor

       Chapter 52: His Humility

       Chapter 53: His Accepting Invitations and His Withdrawal upon Seeing Things He Disapproved Of

       Chapter 54: His Preference for Solitude

       Chapter 55: His Wish to Live in Obscurity and His Efforts to Remain Unnoticed

       Chapter 56: His Fear of God

       Chapter 57: His Preoccupation and Absentmindedness