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 DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS.  Yaumul Ahad, 6th day of Dhul-QA^DAH. (Sunday, 5th of June, 2022). DOES SAYINNG I DIVORCE YOU 3 TIMES COUNT AS 3 DIVORCES?.  BismilLah 


The fuqaha’ differed regarding one who issues two or three talaaqs together. The view I favour is that it counts as one divorce (talaaq), regardless of whether he utters them in one phrase, such as saying, “You are thrice divorced”; or he says them separately, such as saying, “You are divorced, you are divorced, you are divorced”.  This is the view favoured by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may ALLAH have mercy on him), and it was regarded as more likely to be correct by Shaykh as-Sa‘di (may ALLAH have mercy on him) and Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may ALLAH have mercy on him).


They quoted as evidence the report narrated by Muslim (1472) from Ibn ‘Abbaas (may ALLAH be pleased with him), who said: At the time of the Messenger of ALLAH (blessings and peace of ALLAH be upon him), Abu Bakr and the first two years of ‘Umar’s caliphate, a threefold divorce was counted as one. Then ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab said: People have become hasty in a matter in which they should take their time. I am thinking of holding them to it. So he made it binding upon them.


These scholars (may ALLAH have mercy on them) favoured the view that divorce does not count as such except after taking the wife back or doing a new marriage contract with her. So if someone divorces his wife one day, then divorces her again during the ‘iddah following the first talaaq, the second talaaq does not count as such.


Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may ALLAH have mercy on him) said: The view that is most likely to be correct regarding all these matters is that there is no threefold talaaq at all, unless the man divorces his wife, then takes her back (before her ‘iddah ends), then divorces her again, in which case the second divorce counts as such, or he divorces her and her ‘iddah ends, then he does a new marriage contract with her, then he divorces her again – and so on until he has divorced her three times; otherwise it does not count as three. This is the view favoured by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may ALLAH have mercy on him), and it is the correct view."


Based on that, so long as the husband uttered the word of the second and third divorce during the ‘iddah following the first talaaq in which he had not taken back his wife, then only the first talaaq counts as such, and he may take his wife back so long as the ‘iddah has not yet ended. ALLAH KNOWS BEST. May ALLAH keeps guiding us all and protect us from any satanic influences. Aameen.

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