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What is the religious ruling on a husband who divorced his wife with a triple pronouncement, saying: "You are divorced by three and forbidden to me," while in a state of extreme anger, and then they reconciled after two days and lived together, knowing that the prevailing madhhab in Morocco is the Maliki madhhab? Is this life together unlawful? And what is the expiation?

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The pronouncement of triple divorce and prohibition by the husband makes you unlawful for him, and you will not become lawful for him until you marry another husband. His extreme anger is not taken into consideration unless it reaches the point of unconsciousness. Divorcing with three pronouncements in one utterance is an innovation (bid'ah), but it is binding. You are obligated to separate from him. There is no prescribed punishment for either of you if the triple divorce occurred at once, and any child born during that period is attributed to the husband.

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