Are repeated oaths of divorce, such as "Divorce be upon me" if you go to your mother's or your work, considered শরعي (religiously valid) divorces, or does divorce only occur with the final, explicit utterance "You are divorced"?
If a man swears an oath by divorcing his wife and the condition of the oath is met, his wife is divorced according to the majority of scholars. However, Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah holds the view that if the intention was merely to threaten or prevent something, then no divorce occurs, and an expiation for a broken oath (kaffarat yamin) becomes due. Since the condition of the oath was met three times, the wife is irrevocably divorced (baynunah kubra) according to the majority, and she cannot remarry him unless she first marries another man. As for the other opinion, if the husband only intended to threaten, then he owes an expiation for a broken oath for each oath.
As for the husband's explicit declaration of immediate divorce, it constitutes a valid divorce. However, according to the majority, it does not take effect if the wife had already been divorced three times before it. And according to the view that conditional divorce, if not intended as a divorce, is considered an oath, then the wife would have been divorced only once, which is the last instance.
The wife should refer to the Sharia court in her country, as it is the competent authority in such matters.
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