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What is the ruling on the utterance "you are divorced" issued by the husband while in a state of extreme exhaustion, anger, and desire to sleep, after his wife misunderstood what she saw on his phone, and with his intention to tell her "get out"?

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If you utter a divorce statement unintentionally, but it was a slip of the tongue, then your divorce does not take effect. Ibn Qudamah said: "Whenever a person knows this about himself, it does not count against him in his relationship with his Lord." There is no disagreement from Abu Bakr that if someone intended to say to his wife, "Give me water," but his tongue slipped and he said, "You are divorced," then there is no divorce in that.

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