What are the consequences for a husband who told his wife, "If you leave this room, by Allah, you will not enter this house again," and then she left despite his attempts to prevent her, knowing that he was unsure of his true feelings at the time, caught between seriousness and threat?
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A man's statement to his wife: "If you leave the room, by Allah, you will not enter this house again," is a كناية (allusion) of divorce. Divorce does not occur by it unless there is the intention [to divorce]. If he intended divorce by it, then one revocable divorce occurs, and he can take her back during her ' if it was the first or second divorce. If he did not intend divorce but rather intended to threaten her and prevent her from leaving, then no divorce occurs, and he must offer an expiation for breaking an oath.
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