Abu Hurairah told that prophet Muhammad spoke travelling is part of punishment.Why?

cause in those days there was no comfy pimp mobile to travel around with, no limo humvees, just a stinky old donkey which muhammad uses when he needs to stifle his raging hormones, so do you think travelling was fun in those days?

Sir, I think you got it wrong, or it is a wrong translation.

We were taught in Islam, as per the Qura'an and the teachings of our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), that traveling in the cause of Allah and Islam is considered as one from of Jihad.

Now take for example, the Far East of Asia, like Indonesia, most people have converted to Islam since more than 1000 years, through Muslims who traveled to that side of the world at the early days of Islam, not a single sword or battle, it was by mere traveling and preaching.

I don't trust Abu Hurairah's hadiths ..

Quran said Muslims who befriend and don't kill non Muslims go to hell.

Rughat do you befriend non Muslims? Or kill non Muslims?

If answer no u going hell.

Salam Because in traveling is so tired

Traveling is both praised and dispraised. Traveling serves to dispel boredom of people and places as well as feelings of distress. One may travel in order to seek beneficial knowledge, or visit a relative or a brother in faith. In that case, traveling is praised. However, it is also dispraised for being a cause of exhaustion and because the traveler’s heart is distracted and his mind is occupied with parting from his family and loved ones. That is why the Prophet, (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) said: “Traveling is a portion of the torment. It denies you your sleep, food, and drink. When you have accomplished your purpose, you should hurry back to your family” (Al-Bukhaarie & Muslim).

Torment in the Hadith refers to the pain arising from the exhaustion of riding or walking, driving or flying. Some scholars such as Al-Qurtubi and others maintain that banishing the adulterer is a way of torturing him. Since traveling is among the causes of torture. The Imam of the two Holy Mosques was asked: why is traveling a cause of torture? He answered immediately: Because a traveler has to part from his loved ones.

Servants of Allah, traveling nowadays is different from traveling in the previous centuries. Roads have been paved, different kinds of vehicles transport people on land, by planes or aboard ships according to their needs and desires. Long periods have been cut short. What used to take months of exhaustion and toil is now finished within a few days or even a few hours and with very little trouble. The Prophet (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) is reported as saying that “the quick passage of time is a sign of the Day of Resurrection”, (Al-Bukhari).

Nonetheless, despite this comfort, the risks involved in traveling still exist. When one travels aboard a plane and soars high in the sky, cutting his way among the clouds, he is actually bargaining with death, which may be lurking behind a loose screw or a malfunction in the engine.

This emphasizes the necessity of seeking Allah’s refuge and praying for His mercy. This is realized through abiding to the Islamic rules set for traveling and abandoning sins particularly while flying. This necessitates having no prohibited food or beverages aboard the planes and having the crew, be they men or women, dress decently and refrain from all that which may cause them to be ‘over stimulated’ or to be stared at. One wonders at the understanding of the disbelievers who lived during the lifetime of the Prophet, as they used to resort to Allah in times of distress, as Allah says which translates as: “And when they embark on a ship, they invoke Allah, making their Faith pure for Him only, but when He brings them safely to land, behold, they give a share of their worship to others” (Al-Ankabut: 65) compared to some of the contemporary disobedient Muslims, whose times of joy and distress are both alike. May Allah’s curse be on such people who have less faith than the disbelievers at the time of the Prophet (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam).

Many contradictions can be found in prophetical statements, even in Bukhary and Muslim.

Today there are two Islamic structures on the Temple Mount. Late in the seventh century Caliph ʽAbd al-Malik ibn Marwan built the Dome of the Rock on or near the temple site. Although also called a mosque, it is in reality a shrine. South of the Dome of the Rock is the el-Aqsa mosque, first constructed in the eighth century, but largely rebuilt in the eleventh century.

For further information concerning geographic locations related to Jerusalem, see such articles as: EN-ROGEL; KIDRON, TORRENT VALLEY OF; MAKTESH; OLIVES, MOUNT OF; OPHEL; TEMPLE; and ZION.

The City’s Significance. Jerusalem was far more than the capital of an earthly nation. It was the only city in all the earth upon which Jehovah God placed his name. (1Ki 11:36) After the ark of the covenant, associated with God’s presence, was transferred there, and even more so when the temple sanctuary, or house of God, was constructed there, Jerusalem became Jehovah’s figurative ‘residence,’ his “resting-place.��� (Ps 78:68, 69; 132:13, 14; 135:21; compare 2Sa 7:1-7, 12, 13.) Because the kings of the Davidic line were God’s anointed, sitting upon “Jehovah’s throne” (1Ch 29:23; Ps 122:3-5), Jerusalem itself was also called “the throne of Jehovah”; and those tribes or nations turning to it in recognition of God’s sovereignty were, in effect, being congregated to the name of Jehovah. (Jer 3:17; Ps 122:1-4; Isa 27:13) Those hostile to or fighting against Jerusalem were, in actuality, opposing the expression of God’s sovereignty. This was certain to occur, in view of the prophetic statement at Genesis 3:15.

Jerusalem therefore represented the seat of the divinely constituted government or typical kingdom of God. From it went forth God’s law, his word, and his blessing. (Mic 4:2; Ps 128:5) Those working for Jerusalem’s peace and its good were therefore working for the success of God’s righteous purpose, the prospering of his will. (Ps 122:6-9) Though situated among Judah’s mountains and doubtless of impressive appearance, Jerusalem’s true loftiness and beauty came from the way in which Jehovah God had honored and glorified it, that it might serve as “a crown of beauty” for him.—Ps 48:1-3, 11-14; 50:2; Isa 62:1-7.

Since Jehovah’s praise and his will are effected primarily by his intelligent creatures, it was not the buildings forming the city that determined his p. 49continued use of the city but the people in it, rulers and ruled, priests and people. (Ps 102:18-22; Isa 26:1, 2) While these were faithful, honoring Jehovah’s name by their words and life course, he blessed and defended Jerusalem. (Ps 125:1, 2; Isa 31:4, 5) Jehovah’s disfavor soon came upon the people and their kings because of the apostate course the majority followed. For this reason Jehovah declared his purpose to reject the city that had borne his name. (2Ki 21:12-15; 23:27) He would remove “support and stay” from the city, resulting in its becoming filled with tyranny, with juvenile delinquency, with disrespect for men in honorable positions; Jerusalem would suffer abasement and severe humiliation. (Isa 3:1-8, 16-26) Even though Jehovah God restored the city 70 years after permitting its destruction by Babylon, making it again beautiful as the joyful center of true worship in the earth (Isa 52:1-9; 65:17-19), the people and their leaders reverted to their apostate course once more.

Jehovah preserved the city until the sending of his Son to earth. It had to be there for the Messianic prophecies to be fulfilled. (Isa 28:16; 52:7; Zec 9:9) Israel’s apostate course was climaxed in the impalement of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. (Compare Mt 21:33-41.) Taking place as it did at Jerusalem, instigated by the nation’s leaders with popular support, this made certain God’s complete and irreversible rejection of the city as representing him and bearing his name. (Compare Mt 16:21; Lu 13:33-35.) Neither Jesus nor his apostles foretold any restoration by God of earthly Jerusalem and its temple to come after the city’s divinely decreed destruction, which occurred in 70 C.E.

Yet the name Jerusalem continued to be used as symbolic of something greater than the earthly city. The apostle Paul, by divine inspiration, revealed that there is a “Jerusalem above,” which he speaks of as the “mother” of anointed Christians. (Ga 4:25, 26) This places the “Jerusalem above” in the position of a wife to Jehovah God the great Father and Life-Giver. When earthly Jerusalem was used as the chief city of God’s chosen nation, it, too, was spoken of as a woman, married to God, being tied to him by holy bonds in a covenant relationship. (Isa 51:17, 21, 22; 54:1, 5; 60:1, 14) It thus stood for, or was representative of, the entire congregation of God’s human servants. “Jerusalem above” must therefore represent the entire congregation of Jehovah’s loyal spirit servants.

is it true???i don't know..but what i had learned..Islam encourage their ummah to go travelling..it is because you can see the greatest creation that create by greatest god(Allah)..that can make you think how humble are human being...

Why you look Chinese I stalk your Facebook.

travelling is like half death , not punishment. not confirmed.