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Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hazm that in a letter that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, sent to Amr ibn Hazm it said that no-one should touch the Quran unless he was pure.
Muwatta Malik Book 15, Hadith 1
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Amra bint
Abd ar-Rahman that A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, said, "If the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, had seen what women do now, he would
have forbidden them to go into the mosques, just as the women of the
Bani Israil were forbidden."
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Malik said, "No-one should carry the Quran by its strap, or on a cushion, unless he is pure. If it were permissible to do so, it would also have been permissible to carry it in its cover. This is not because there is something on the hands of the one who carries it by which the Quran will be soiled, but because it is disapproved of for someone to carry the Quran without being pure out of respect for the Quran, and in order to honour it."
Malik said, "The best thing that I have heard about this is the ayat 'None touch it except the purified.' (Sura 56 ayat 79) It ranks with the ayat in Surat Abasa (Sura 80), where Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, says, 'No, it is a reminder, and whoever wishes will remember it. Upon honoured pages, exalted and purified, by the hands of scribes, noble and obedient.' "