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What is the ruling on pronouncing divorce in anger, given that the wife and her family were not informed of it?

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Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence the Shaykh, a questioner says: A quarrel occurred between me and my wife, and I went to her parents' house. When my father learned of the matter, he became angry with me and wanted me to go and bring her back. We argued, my father and I, and in that state I pronounced the divorce several times, at varying intervals. The wife and her family were not informed of this. She has been in her parents' house for seven months, and I have not brought her back to this day. After my family intervened and advised me, I wanted to bring her back. What is your opinion, and may Allah reward you with good?

Answer:
If you divorced her several times, three times, then she has become permanently divorced from you by a major final divorce, and you have no right to take her back, except after she marries another husband and he divorces her. As for if you divorced her only once, a single divorce, you have the right to take her back as long as she is in the waiting period. If you divorced her with only one divorce, or two divorces, and did not complete the three, and nothing preceded them to complete the three, then the one or two divorces, if nothing preceded them to complete the three, are a revocable divorce as long as she is in the waiting period. But if she exits the waiting period, there is no taking back except with a new marriage contract. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم التلفظ بالطلاق في الغضب علمًا بأن الزوجة وأهلها لم يعلموا بذلك؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com

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