Is the pronouncement of three divorces valid, and what is the Sunnah divorce and the innovated divorce?

The Shaykh : Welcome, Shaykh Muhammad.

The presenter : Welcome to you.

The questioner : While we wait to begin with the calls from our listeners, this questioner says: Shaykh Muhammad, I divorced my wife in a fit of anger the first time, pronouncing three divorces. Are these divorces revocable? What do you advise us, Honorable Shaykh?

The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, the seal of the prophets and the imam of the righteous. As for what follows, before I answer this questioner’s question, I would like to clarify to him and to the listening brothers that the Sunnah divorce is when a man divorces his wife once, whether she is pregnant or in a period in which he has not had intercourse with her. As for divorcing her twice or three times, that is forbidden and not permissible for a person, because it is an innovated divorce, and every innovation is misguidance, and because a person hastens to himself what he is free from and has no need of.
Second, the answer to his question is that if a person is overcome by anger, he is commanded to suppress his anger, to be patient, and to seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Shaytan. If he is standing, let him sit down, and if he is sitting, let him lie down. If the anger has not left him in this state, let him perform wudu (ablution), because anger is a spark that Shaytan throws into the heart of the son of Adam. So perhaps he will divorce his wives, perhaps he will free his slaves, perhaps he will break his vessels, or perhaps he will burn his wealth. For this reason, a man said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family): “Advise me.” He said: “Do not get angry.” He repeated it several times: “Do not get angry.” Al-Bukhari narrated it.
As for the answer to his question, as I said, it is obligatory for him to suppress his anger, to be patient, and to say what was reported and do what was reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family).
If something slipped out of him in a state of intense anger, such as a divorce, a manumission, or an oath, it has no ruling. This is based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family): . That is, there is no divorce in a state where a person is overwhelmed until he does not know what he is saying, or until he cannot control himself when angry.