Touching Quran without Wudhu

بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Chapter 15  'The Quran' from  Malik's Muwatta.
15.1.1

عن عبداللہ بن ابی بکر بن حزم ان فی کتاب الذی کتبہ رسول اللہ لعمرو بن حزم لا یمس القرآن الا طاھر
(موطا امام مالک)

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 Qur'an unless he was pure".

Malik said, "No-one should carry the Qur'an 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 Qur'an will be soiled, but because it is disapproved of for someone to carry the Qur'an without being pure out of respect for the Qur'an, 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.' "

15.2.2Yahya 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 Qur'an. He went to relieve himself and then came back and recited Qur'an. One of the men said to him, "Amir al muminin, are you reciting the Qur'an without being in wudu?" Umar replied, "Who gave you a verdict on this? Was it Musaylima?"'



عن حکیم بن حزام ان النبی لما بعثہ والیاً الی الیمن قال لا تمس القرآن الا وانت طاھر

(مستدرک حاکم)

Hakim Ibn Hizam (RA) narrates that I was deputed as a Wali towards Yemen by the Prophet (Sallahu Alaihi Wassallam) and he said, "Don't touch the Qura'n unless you are Taahir (clean from impurity)." [Mustadrak]

عن عبداللہ بن عمر ان رسول اللہ قال لا یمس القرآن الا طاھر

(رواہ الطبرانی)

Sayydina Abdhullah Ibn Umar (RA) narrates that the Prophet of Allah (Sallaho Alaihe Wassallam) said, 'Don't touch the Qur'aan except in the state of purity.' [Tabarani]

Touching the Mushaf without Wudhoo - Shaykh 'Abdul-'Azeez bin Baaz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgUNLu8rFvI

Regarding Touching the Translation or Tafsir of The Quran then it is permissible:
  http://www.islam-qa.com/en/ref/22829 

As for Non Muslim touching Arabic Quran this is completely impermissible because of the following verse from the Quran.

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّمَا الْمُشْرِكُونَ نَجَسٌ 
O you who have believed, indeed the polytheists are unclean [9:28]
http://islamqa.info/en/ref/12225/dua%20for%20non%20muslim
عن انس بن مالک قال خرج عمر متقلد السیف فقیل لھ ان ختنک واختک قد صبوا فاتاھما عمر و عندھما رجل من المھاجرین یقال لھ خباب و کانو یقرون طھ فقال اعطونی الکتاب عندکم اقراہ و کان عمر یقرا الکتاب فقالت لھ اختھ انک رجس ولا یمسھ الا المطھرون فقم فاغتسل او توضا فقام عمر فتوضا ثم اخذ الکتاب فقراطھ (دارقطنی)

In the incident of Sayyidna 'Umar's (RA) embracing Islam, Umar Bin Khattab  where he asked his sister, Fathima Binti Khattab to give him the pages of the Qur'an, she recited verse [79] of this Surah, refused to give him the pages and said 'only the pure ones can touch it'. As a result, he was forced to take a bath, and then recite the contents of the pages.The version from Dar-Qutni is narrated above.

But if there is more translation and Tafseer than the Arabic verses, then there is no problem http://www.islam-qa.com/en/ref/22829 

The letters sent by Prophet (Sallalahu Alaihi Wasallam) to different Kings contained Qura'nic verses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad's_letters_to_the_Heads-of-State

Listen to this nice advice by Sheik Assim Al- Hakeem on CAN THE QURAN BE GIVEN TO A NON MUSLIM?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbZ_-reI5Uo