How is the time of a day and night mentioned in the hadith regarding a woman's travel determined? Is this condition intended for its own sake?

The questioner : A brother asks about the hadith , saying: "A woman should not travel for a day and a night." How is the time of a day and a night determined? Is it by the old mode of travel or the modern mode? We know that a person can reach the farthest country by plane in less than a day and a night, whereas in the past, one could not reach Al-Aqabah in a day and a night.

The Shaykh : Correct. The answer is that the condition mentioned in this hadith is not intended for its own sake. In some of the hadiths, "three days and their nights" was mentioned instead of "a day and a night." At the end of the jurisprudential research into these hadiths, the matter concludes with adopting the absolute narration among the hadith's narrations, which is more comprehensive and general than all the other narrations that came with the wording "a day and a night" or "three days." That is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): , an absolute travel. This is also part of the precision of the Shari'ah, because if we keep in mind this general text that encompasses every type of travel, regardless of the length or shortness of its distances, the problem that arose regarding the distances covered by modern means in less than an hour is resolved. Does the one who covered this distance cease to be a traveler or not? If he is still a traveler, then the rulings of the traveler apply to him, and the distance he covered, and the means or machine by which he traversed it, have no value at that time. This is the answer to this question.