What is the evidence that witnessing the resumption of a divorced wife is a recommended practice (sunnah) and not obligatory?
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The questioner : Witnessing the resumption of a divorced wife.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : Witnessing.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Regarding the resumption of a divorced wife, the correct view is that it is a recommended practice (sunnah).
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed.
The questioner : What is the... factor that shifts...?
The Shaykh : There are many things reported from the Companions where they resumed their wives without witnessing; the practice indicates this. The time is up, everyone, it is over and no more is needed.
The reader: Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon His servant and our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
Imam Muslim (may Allah have mercy on him) said in the Book of the Prayer of the Traveler and its Shortening.
A chapter on the comprehensive ruling of night prayer, and for one who slept through it or was ill.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : Witnessing.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Regarding the resumption of a divorced wife, the correct view is that it is a recommended practice (sunnah).
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed.
The questioner : What is the... factor that shifts...?
The Shaykh : There are many things reported from the Companions where they resumed their wives without witnessing; the practice indicates this. The time is up, everyone, it is over and no more is needed.
The reader: Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon His servant and our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
Imam Muslim (may Allah have mercy on him) said in the Book of the Prayer of the Traveler and its Shortening.
A chapter on the comprehensive ruling of night prayer, and for one who slept through it or was ill.