Is the second divorce considered an irreversible (bain) divorce after her husband had divorced her three times, knowing that he had previously divorced her once then taken her back?
The we adopt is that a triple divorce pronounced at once counts as three divorces, and the woman becomes irrevocably divorced (baynunah kubra) thereby. This is the view of the majority of scholars and has been narrated from a number of Companions.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah and those who agreed with him held that a triple divorce pronounced at once counts as a single divorce.
Accordingly, your brother's wife has become irrevocably divorced from him. It is not permissible for him to take her back unless she marries another man—a marriage of genuine desire, not a tahlil marriage—and the new husband consummates the marriage with her, and then he divorces her or dies, and her ' from him expires.
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