Does the divorce occur if the husband says to his wife "You are divorced, divorced, divorced" three times on three separate occasions, with him returning home on the first two occasions without renewing the marriage contract, and on the third occasion by phone call, repeating the phrase more than twenty times, and they both went to court to affirm the divorce without completing it, and is the wife considered irrevocably divorced (talaq bainunah kubra) and not permissible for her husband unless she marries another man?
The sister asking the question should refer her case to the Sharia courts, as it is more of a legal claim than a fatwa.
As for the general ruling, the triple divorce issued by the husband is binding, and the wife becomes a stranger to him. It is not permissible for him to marry her again unless she marries another man out of genuine desire. Then, if the second husband separates from her either by death or divorce, it becomes permissible for her to return to her first husband.
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