What is the difference between the Sunnah divorce and the bid'i (innovated) divorce?
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The divorce is for a man to divorce his wife during a period of purity in which he has not had intercourse with her, and not to follow it with another divorce until her waiting period ends. Bid'i divorce (innovative/unlawful divorce) is for him to divorce her during menstruation or postpartum bleeding, or during a period of purity in which he had intercourse with her, or to divorce her during her waiting period from a revocable divorce, or to divorce her two or three times in one utterance.
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