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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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A man divorced his wife three times with a single phrase; is she divorced?

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The questioner : I am a person—may you live long—who had problems... Shaykh, perhaps I divorced her three or four times.

The Shaykh : If you divorced her four times, it counts as one, which is three.

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : The question says he got angry with his wife and was with her... and divorced his wife three or four times.
What did you say?

The questioner : You are divorced, divorced, divorced.

The Shaykh : But you did not say: You are divorced, you are divorced, you are divorced.

The questioner : One after the other, I divorced her...

The Shaykh : Did you say: You are divorced, divorced, divorced, or did you say: You are divorced, you are divorced, you are divorced?

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : This is one, and I take back my wife.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : You must know the difference between "You are divorced, you are divorced, you are divorced" and "You are divorced, divorced, divorced."
The first is three, according to the well-known view of most scholars.
And the second: one divorce, except...
Source alathar.net

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