If a man’s wife divorced him via khul’ (divorce at the wife’s request for compensation) and he then married her again under a new contract, does he have the three divorces anew, or is the khul’ counted as one divorce?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a man’s wife divorced him via khul’ and he then married her again under a new contract, does he have the three divorces anew?

Answer:
Yes, indeed. Khul’ does not reduce the number of divorces; it is not a divorce, it is khul’. Yes.