Does a divorce and a pronouncement of ẓihār against the wife occur if she crosses the threshold of the neighbors' door with her foot then quickly retreats, knowing that the husband had sworn to her, "By triple divorce, you shall not cross the threshold to the neighbors, and you shall be as unlawful to me as my mother and my sister," and his intention was divorce if she went to the neighbors?
A contingent divorce based on entering the house with the words "Don't go complaining to the neighbors" does not take effect unless the wife fully enters the house. The entry of only part of the body is not sufficient for the divorce or interdiction to occur, and the madhhabs of Abu Hanifa and Al-Shafi'i support this view.
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