The Necessity to Honor an Old Muslim
Al-Kāfi|Volume 2|Book 4|Chapter 16
1ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ سِنَانٍ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) إِنَّ مِنْ إِجْلالِ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِجْلالَ الشَّيْخِ الْكَبِيرِ.
1. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad and Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father all from ibn Mahbub from ‘Abd Allah ibn Sinan who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام has said, ‘It is of honoring Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, to honor a Muslim man advanced in age.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/559)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 167