Al-Kāfi - The Book of Social Manners

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Social Manners Chapter: The Necessity to Honor an Old Muslim ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْفُضَيْلِ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَ٠ِعْتُ أَبَا الْخَطَّابِ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ ثَلاثَةٌ لا يَجْهَلُ حَقَّهُ٠َعْرُوفٌ بِالنِّفَاقِ ذُو الشَّيْبَةِ فِي الإسْلا٠ِلُ الْقُرْآنِ وَالإ٠4.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from Muhammad ibn Ali from Muhammad ibn al-Fudayl from Ishaq ibn ‘Ammar who has said that he heard abu al-Khattab narrate from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) the following: “There are three kinds of people whose rights are not ignored, except by a hypocrite, well-known in hypocrisy: of such people is an old person in Islam, the carrier of the Holy Quran and the Imam who possesses the noble merit of justice.” سكت عنه - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/560))