What is the authenticity of the hadith: “A woman should not travel a distance of a day’s journey except with a mahram (a relative one may not marry)”?

The questioner : What is your final opinion regarding the hadith of Abu Hurayrah ? Is it authentic or weak? May Allah reward you.

The Shaykh : It is not authentic. The authenticity I mentioned in my book *Sahih al-Jami'* was based on its chain of narration. In fact, the chain of this hadith in *Sunan Abu Dawud* is authentic and meets the conditions of Muslim. However, when I reviewed this hadith again and was able to gather its various routes, it became clear to me that one of the narrators of the hadith regarding the "day's journey," Jarir ibn Abd al-Hamid—I believe the narrator from Suhayl—uniquely mentioned the word "day's journey" (bayrid), while all the other narrators who shared the narration from the aforementioned sheikh narrated it with the phrase "a day and a night." This type of tracing the routes, words, and narrations of a hadith revealed the anomaly of the word "day's journey" and that the preserved version is "a day and a night," meaning or as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said. Therefore, mentioning the word "day's journey" in precise hadith terminology is anomalous, which means that the hadith with this wording is weak. This is what became clear to me.