| Card | “The house ofal-Arqam is the house ofIslam” Al-Hakim (d.403H.) in a/-MustadrakAlaal-Sahibayn (6185) in the Pursuit of Travelling Knowledge al-Khateeb By al-Baghdadi SallS DAR AL-AROQAM SUNNICONNECT.COM ISBN: 09928136 2 8 British LibraryCataloguing in PublishingData A catologue record forthis bookis available from the British Library © Copyright2014 Dar al-Arqam Publishing Allrightsreservedworldwide.Nopartofthispublication maybereproduced in anylanguage, storedin a retrievalsystem ortransmittedin anyform or by any means, electronic, mechanical,photocopying, recording or otherwise withouttheexpresspermission ofthepublisher. Prepared andpublishedby: Dar al-Arqam Publishing Birmingham,United Kingdom www.daralarqam.bigcartel.com Email: [email protected] TranslatedbyAyman ibn Khalid EditedbyAdnan ibn Fazal Karim PrintedinTurkeybyMega [email protected] | Travelling in the Pursuit of Knowledge By al-Khateeb al-Baghdadi [A translation ofhis work: Rihlafi Talab al-Hadeeth| “My Lord! Bestowwisdom on me, andjoin me with the righteous; and grant me an honourable mention in later and make me one of the inheritors of the generations; Paradise ofDelight.” [Ash-Shu’ara: 83-85] Contents Biographyofal-Khateeb al-Baghdadi 9 Publisher’sPreface 13 ChapterOne:TheVirtuesandMerits of TravellinginthePursuit of Knowledge 15 ChapterTwo:TheJourneyofMusa 3&8 and His Servant in the PursuitofKnowledge 33 ChapterThree:TheNobleCompanionsWhoTravelledtoHear aSingle Hadeeth 43 ChapterFour: Strivingforthe Hadeeth:TheExample ofthe Tabi‘eenandthe Tabi’ Tabi'een 55 ChapterFive:TheJourneys ofthe Salaffor ShortChains of NarrationWheretheNarratorsDiedBeforeTheyCouldHear Them 83 AppendixOne:Al-Khateeb’sCompleteChapterfromImam al-Dhahabi’s Siyaar A’laam al-Nubala 101