The Criterion for Coercion in Divorce

Question:
It was asked: What is the standard for the excess that excuses a person? Is it killing, violating honor, taking money, or hastening?

Answer:
Coercion varies according to the circumstances; it is not all one type of coercion. No, the word of disbelief is not uttered unless one is threatened with killing, beating, or clear harm. So, coercion varies according to the one being coerced. Is the coercion regarding divorce when one is threatened with what harms him, such as killing, beating, taking money, or other types of harm? In the time of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, a woman went with her husband to buy honey from the mountain. She held the rope for him, and he descended to take the honey. When he was down on the rope, she said, "Either you divorce me, or I will let go of the rope with you." When he saw that she was threatening to let go of the rope so that he would fall from the mountain and die, he divorced her. Then he held on to the rope. When he came out, he went to 'Umar, who returned her to him and considered this to be coercion. So, coercion varies according to the circumstances, or is it one type? Yes.