His statement: Abu Abdullah said: I don’t know of anything besides the obligatory duties that is better than jihad.
This issue has been related by Ahmad from a group of his companions; Al-Athram said that Ahmad said: We don’t know of any of the doors of devotion better than the path itself. Al-Fadl ibn Ziyad said: I heard Abu Abdullah, when the issue of going on raids was mentioned to him – it made him weep and say: There is no act of devotion better than this. Others have related from him: "Nothing compares to facing the enemy".