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Related narrations on this topic:

From Ibn ʿUmar, raised to the Prophet (marfūʿan): recorded by al-Bukhārī in *al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr* 6/19, al-ʿUqaylī in *al-Ḍuʿafāʾ* 3/20, and al-Bayhaqī in *al-Shuʿab* (10985); also as a stopped narration (mawqūfan) in al-Bayhaqī's *al-Shuʿab* (2686). Its chain is weak.

From Abū Umāma: recorded by al-Bayhaqī in *al-Shuʿab* (9017). Its chain is weak.

From Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh: recorded by Ibn ʿAdī in *al-Kāmil* 4/1596, and al-Bayhaqī in *al-Shuʿab* (2687) and (10984). Its chain is weak.

From Abū Hurayra: in al-Bayhaqī's *al-Shuʿab* (10988). Its chain is weak.

Also on this topic, as a sent narration (mursalan): recorded by Abū ʿUbayd in *Faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān* p. 89, al-Kharāʾiṭī in *Makārim al-Akhlāq* p. 55, al-Shāshī in his *Musnad* (25), and al-Bayhaqī in *al-Shuʿab* (10840), via the chain of al-Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāʾa, from Sulaymān ibn Suḥaym, from Ṭalḥa ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Karīz, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said... This chain has two defects: first, the tadlīs (concealment) of al-Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāʾa and his use of ʿanʿana (ambiguous "from" transmission); second, the disconnection between Sulaymān ibn Suḥaym and Ṭalḥa, as al-Bayhaqī explicitly noted in *al-Shuʿab* immediately following his narration of the ḥadīth.

Also on this topic, as a sent narration: recorded by al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāma in his *Musnad* — in al-Haythamī's *Zawāʾid* (734) — from Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq: Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from Qatāda, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Part of magnifying the majesty of Allah is honoring the Muslim elder with gray hair, the bearer of the Qurʾān, and the just ruler."

Its chain up to Qatāda is sound.

The author of *ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd* said: "Part of revering Allah," meaning venerating and magnifying Him; and "honoring the Muslim elder with gray hair," meaning showing respect to the elderly man in Islam by treating him with deference in gatherings, gentleness toward him, compassion for him, and the like — all of this is part of complete reverence for Allah, out of regard for his sanctity before Allah.

Al-Ghulūw (extremism) means going to excess and transgressing proper bounds — that is, one who does not transgress the bounds in acting upon it, nor in pursuing its hidden aspects and ambiguous meanings, nor in the limits of its recitation and the articulation points of its letters. This was stated by al-ʿAzīzī.

"And the one who is harsh toward it (al-jāfī ʿanhu)," meaning one who does not keep away from it, turning away from reciting it, mastering its recitation, perfecting its meanings, and acting upon what it contains.

It is also said: al-ghulūw is exaggeration in tajwīd (proper recitation) or haste in reading such that it prevents him from reflecting on the meaning. And al-jafāʾ (harshness) is abandoning it after having learned it — especially if he forgets it, for that is counted among the major sins.