Does uttering "You are divorced" three consecutive times, then "You are divorced" after childbirth, then "You are forbidden to me; I have divorced you" in Ramadan constitute a divorce? And can the wife be taken back after that?
A man's saying to his wife, "You are divorced, you are divorced, you are divorced," effects three divorces according to the majority of scholars, or one if he intended emphasis, or one according to some scholars. The divorce takes effect with the saying "You are divorced" after she delivers the baby, and it would be the second divorce. However, if she is in the postnatal bleeding (nifas) period, it is an innovative (bid'i) divorce, the occurrence of which is disputed, and the correct view is that it does not take effect. His statement in the third instance, "I have divorced you," also effects a divorce. If this is the third divorce, then she becomes irrevocably separated from him (baynunah kubra), and she is not lawful for him until she marries another husband. A tahlil marriage (marriage for the sole purpose of making her lawful for her first husband) is forbidden and does not make her lawful for him.
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