The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "A morning's journey or an evening's journey in the cause of Allah is better than the world and everything in it."
أخبرنا عبدة بن عبد الله قال حدثنا حسين بن علي عن زائدة عن سفيان عن أبي حازم
قال رسول الله ﷺ الغدوة والروحة في سبيل الله عز وجل أفضل من الدنيا وما فيها
ReferenceBukhari narrated it in the Book of Jihad, chapter "Going out in the morning and evening in the path of Allah, and the space of a bow's length of one of you in Paradise," hadith no. 2794, and Muslim narrated it in the Book of Leadership, chapter "The merit of going out in the morning and evening in the path of Allah," hadith no. 114/1881, from the hadith of Sufyan Thawri, with the same wording. It is also found in Kubra, hadith no. 4326.