Are the pronouncements of divorce made by the husband in a state of anger, and those made in front of family and the officiant, counted as three divorces? What is the ruling on returning to him? Is a muhallil required?

The ruling on divorce pronounced in anger varies according to its intensity; some such divorces are valid, and some are not. If a husband divorces his wife in the presence of the ma'dhun (authorized marriage official) and his intention was to confirm a previous divorce, it does not count as a new divorce. However, if he intended to issue another divorce, it is considered a new divorce within the 'iddah (waiting period) and applies to the wife. Some scholars are of the opinion that divorce pronounced during menstruation or during a period of purity in which sexual intercourse occurred is invalid. If three divorces have been pronounced, the woman becomes irrevocably separated from her husband and is not lawful for him until she marries another man in a valid marriage and he consummates it with her, and then he separates from her. A tahlil marriage (a marriage entered into solely to make a divorced woman lawful for her previous husband) is invalid and forbidden by Islamic law, and it does not make the woman lawful for her first husband.