Imam Ahmad's virtues

Abu Bakr Al -Marwadi said: Abu Afif said to me - and Abu Abdullah Ahmad bin Hanbal was mentioned - and he said: "He was in the writers with us, and he was unaware we know his bounty, and the caliph was in tender Hanbal, to write to them the answer of their books, and he sent it, and he would have come to them, the head, so he would write the answer of their books, so they may have hoped for someth...