Does divorce occur to the wife if the husband swears by divorce to do a certain thing, and he is a liar and does not do this thing?
Whoever swears an oath of divorce falsely has committed a sin and must repent. According to the majority of scholars, divorce takes effect, and he may take his wife back before her 'iddah (waiting period) expires, unless this divorce completes the three divorces. Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah dissented, holding that neither divorce nor an expiatory oath (kaffarat yamin) is required, but only repentance. The preponderant view is that of the majority of scholars.
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