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Bro ibn Farooq is there a English trans of the above books?
Anyting in English that you can recommend?

Wasalaam.

With a saddened heart I have to reply with ‘no’ there is not much out there for the Hanaabilah in any language other than Arabic. This is because most of the followers of the Maddhab of Imaam Ahmad bin Hanbal (May Allah have mercy on him) are in Arabic speaking countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Syria, Palestine etc.) Yet, some basic books have been translated in English such as:

Fiqh Made Easy by Shaikh Saalih ibn Ghaanim al-Sadlaan
Al-Ghunya li-Talibin by Shaikh AbdulQadir Jilaani (May Allah have mercy on him)
Al-Mulakhkhas al-Fiqhi (A Summary of Islamic Jurisprudence) by Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan
Zaad al-Ma'ad by al-Haafidh Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah (May Allah have mercy on him)

None of these are books that give only the Mu'tamad opinion for the maddhab but the best of these in my humble opinion is Al-Mulakhkhas al-Fiqhi since it is based upon Rawd al-Murbi' which is a standard relied upon book in the maddhab of Imaam Ahmad (May Allah have mercy on him)

I am working on translating al-Umdah and you can read parts of that from the lessons on my website

http://www.ibnfarooq.com/lessons.html

And yes I have Ijaza and Sanad in al-Umdah