Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 357
حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَوْفٌ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ مِخْرَاقٍ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو كِنَانَةَ، عَنِ الأَشْعَرِيِّ قَالَ: إِنَّ مِنَ إِجْلاَلِ اللهِ إِكْرَامَ ذِي الشَّيْبَةِ الْمُسْلِمِ، وَحَامِلِ الْقُرْآنِ، غَيْرِ الْغَالِي فِيهِ، وَلاَ الْجَافِي عَنْهُ، وَإِكْرَامَ ذِي السُّلْطَانِ الْمُقْسِطِ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Musa al-Ash‘ari said: Part of venerating Allah is honoring an elderly Muslim and a bearer of the Qur’an who is neither excessive with it nor neglectful of it, and honoring a just ruler.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source’s qualifier describes a Qur’an bearer who is neither excessive nor neglectful with respect to it; the translation does not add an interpretation of what those extremes entail.