What is the ruling regarding a man saying to his wife, "You are forbidden to me, and I will treat you like my mother and sister," because she refused to have intercourse with him? And what is the ruling regarding his saying, "If you do such and such, then you are divorced," with the intention of threatening and deterring her? And what if the wife does what her husband swore by?
A husband's forbidding his wife to himself is considered zhihar. Similarly, the suspending of a wife's divorce upon an action or inaction, and her breaking an oath, necessitates her divorce according to the majority of scholars.
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