The Intended Meaning of the Hadith: “Whoever Travels a Path in Search of Knowledge”
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner:
This questioner says: May Allah reward you. What is the intended meaning in the hadith, “Whoever travels a path in search of knowledge,” up to the end of the hadith? Is the intended meaning travel?
The Shaykh:
It includes travel and it includes seeking, this is traveling. It includes memorizing knowledge, it includes sitting with the scholars. All of this is a path to knowledge.
The questioner:
This questioner says: May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
As for writing, writing knowledge. Yes.
This questioner says: May Allah reward you. What is the intended meaning in the hadith, “Whoever travels a path in search of knowledge,” up to the end of the hadith? Is the intended meaning travel?
The Shaykh:
It includes travel and it includes seeking, this is traveling. It includes memorizing knowledge, it includes sitting with the scholars. All of this is a path to knowledge.
The questioner:
This questioner says: May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
As for writing, writing knowledge. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب فتح المجيد في شرح كتاب التوحيد [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع شرح البسملة — islamhouse.com (1:12:24)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.