Is a man saying to his wife, "You are forbidden to me," considered a divorce?

The questioner : If a man says to his wife, "You are forbidden to me," is she considered divorced?

The Shaykh : She is not divorced. That is, if a man says to his wife, "You are forbidden to me," it is not a divorce and it is not zihar. But it is an oath. Listen to the verse we recited: . Is a woman among the things Allah has made lawful for him, or not? Answer, everyone. A woman is among the things Allah has made lawful for him. He said: . There is no difference between a wife and anyone else. As for those scholars who distinguished between a wife and others, saying that forbidding a wife is zihar and forbidding anyone else is an oath, they have no evidence for this, and the verse is clear. . It is authentically reported from Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: . Yes.