The ruling on a woman asking her husband for a divorce
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Is it permissible for a woman to ask her husband for a divorce?
Answer:
If she has a reason, yes, she asks her husband for a divorce. But if she has no reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says:Sunan ad-Darimi 12:9 without a reason, and the scent of Paradise is forbidden to her. It is not permissible for her to do that.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Is it permissible for a woman to ask her husband for a divorce?
Answer:
If she has a reason, yes, she asks her husband for a divorce. But if she has no reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says:
Any woman who asks her husband for a divorce
أيما امرأة سألت زوجها الطلاق من
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، ذكر الآثار عن تابعي التابعين ومن بعدهم — islamhouse.com (44:28)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.