Yahya related to me from Malik from Ayyub ibn Abi Tamima as- Sakhtayani from Muhammad ibn Sirin that Umar ibn al-Khattab was with some people who were reciting Quran. He went to relieve himself and then came back and recited Quran. One of the men said to him, "Amir al muminin, are you reciting the Quran without being in wudu?" Umar replied, "Who gave you a verdict on this? Was it Musaylima?"'
Muwatta Malik Book 15, Hadith 3
← Previous Hadith 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.' "

Muwatta Malik Book 15, Hadith 2 Next Hadith → Yahya related to me from Malik from Dawud ibn al-Husayn from al- Araj from Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abd al-Qari that Umar ibn al Khattab said, "Whoever misses reading his hizb at night and reads it from when the sun has passed the meridian until the dhuhr prayer has not missed it, or it is as if he has caught it."

Muwatta Malik Book 15, Hadith 4