A man said, "Messenger of Allah, grant me permission to travel the land in devotion."The Prophet ﷺ replied, "The travel of my nation is striving in the path of Allah."
أن رجلا قال: يا رسول الله، ائذن لي بالسياحة، قال النبي ﷺ: إن سياحة أمتي الجهاد في سبيل الله.
Abu Dawud (2486), Hakim (2/73), and Bayhaqi (9/161) narrated it through Muhammad bin Uthman Tanukhi, Abu Jamahir, who said, our teacher Haytham bin Humayd narrated to us, Ala bin Harith informed me, from Qasim Abu Abdul-Rahman, from Abu Umama, and he mentioned it.Its chain of transmission is hasan because of Qasim Abu Abdul-Rahman, for there is disagreement about him, and the most likely view is that his hadith is hasan. Hakim said, "This is a hadith sahih in its chain of transmission."