Bismillah
Al-jawab billahi at-taufeeq (the answer with Allah\'s guidance)
1) This Hadith �seek knowledge as far as China� is fabricated. Mawdoo' (fabricated) are those narrations, which the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) had never said but someone imposed a lie upon the messenger of Allah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam). Mawdoo' is regarded The worst of the rejected reports.
The scholars who critiqued this Hadith are:
al-Bayhaqi
�Its text is famous, yet it is a weak hadith; it has been narrated by chains which are all entirely weak�� (Shu�ab al-Iman)
Ibn al-Qaysarani
�It contains Abu Atikah Tarif ibn Salman he is Rejected in hadith to the utmost (Munkar al Hadith jiddan)�� (Tadhkirat al-Huffadh)
Ibn al-Jawzi
�It is not authentic�� (al-Mawdu�at)
al-Dhahabi
Mentions Abu Atikah Tarif ibn Salman and those that disparaged him and this hadith in (MIzan al-�Itidal)
Al-Sakhawi
��it is weak�� (al-Maqasid al-Hasanah)
2) Mawdudi was not a scholar. One should abstain from any literature of Mawdudi
as it is extensively misleading.
Click on this link to read more:
http://www.central-mosque.com/aqeedah/Mawdudi.htmAnd Only Allah Ta'ala Knows Best.
