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A trick by a man who divorced his wife for the third time on his deathbed so that she would not inherit from him

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Question : Suppose a man was ill with a terminal illness. He had a wife. He was still living with her. Only one divorce remained for him to divorce her. So he divorced her while he was ill with a terminal illness. Then he died after divorcing her with a final divorce, meaning the last divorce counts as a final divorce. He divorced her with the last divorce while ill with a feared terminal illness, then died. Does she inherit from him or not?

Answer : My brothers, she is divorced from him, and may Allah bless you. Yes, she is divorced from him. By which method? The divorce is final. It does not follow. She repents. Why does she repent? Yes, it is returned. Why? Because it is possible that he divorced her so that she would not be returned to him, because he knows that if a woman is finally divorced, she is not returned. A finally divorced woman is not returned. So he divorced her so that she would not be returned. We say she is returned. She is returned without a doubt. Do you understand? Good. She certainly claims the inheritance. This is something that returns to her. But if he divorced her while ill with a terminal illness, regarding the inheritance, the inheritance, the financial matters, we say it is a loss because it is difficult.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، [214] حيلة من طلق زوجته الطلقة الثالثة في مرض موته لئلا ترث - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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