Is a husband's divorce of his wife during menstruation, followed by his taking her back and divorcing her during the first period of purity after the menstruation of the divorce, considered two divorces or one, and why is someone who divorces during menstruation commanded to take his wife back, despite the possibility of increasing the number of divorces?

We have answered your question that the fatwa held by us is that the man has pronounced two divorces: the first during menstruation, and the second during the period of purity that followed menstruation.

Scholars have differed regarding the command to a man who divorced his wife during menstruation to take her back. Some said: He was punished for transgressing what he was commanded. Others said: He was commanded to do so to prevent harm by prolonging her iddah, because he divorced her at a time that does not count towards the iddah.

So, he was not commanded to take her back in order to divorce her again, but for what was mentioned. After taking her back, he may keep her and not divorce her again.