What is the ruling on someone who said, "Allah forbids for me..." intending to make his family unlawful for himself, but did not complete the phrase, or completed it, and he intended to prevent his friend from paying the bill, but the friend paid?

If you doubted completing your supplication by prohibiting your family, then nothing is incumbent upon you; because doubt prevents the occurrence of divorce, and what you intended in your heart has no effect as long as you did not utter it.

And if you said to your friend: "By Allah, my family is forbidden to me if I pay the bill," and he paid it, then this is a form of supplication, and it is a figurative expression (kinayah) where your intention is referred to:

- If you intended divorce: it constitutes a divorce, and you may take back your wife if it was not completing the third (divorce). - If you intended ẓihār: the expiation for ẓihār becomes incumbent upon you. - If you intended an oath by Allah or did not intend anything: the expiation for an oath becomes incumbent upon you.