Does a divorce occur with the statement "Tell your father: Muhammad divorced me" if the speaker did not intend divorce and did not utter an explicit pronouncement?
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This phrase is a report of divorce, not an initiation of it. The preponderant opinion is that divorce does not occur by falsely reporting it. Therefore, nothing has taken place as long as you did not intend divorce with that phrase.
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