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Is it permissible to take back one's wife after her husband said to her: "If you go to your uncle's house, then you are considered divorced," and she considered herself divorced and stayed in her home, and then he took her back while she was in her third menstrual period?

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The husband's statement: "If you go to your uncle's house, you are considered divorced," is an implicit (kinayah) divorce, and divorce does not occur by it unless the husband intended divorce and the wife went to her uncle's house.

If a divorce occurs and the husband takes his wife back by saying: "I have taken you back," before the completion of the third menstrual period, then if the 'aqra' (waiting periods) are calculated by menstruation, the return is valid as long as this divorce is not the completion of three divorces. However, if the 'aqra' are calculated by purity, then the waiting period ends upon seeing the first blood of the third menstruation, and the return is not valid. The wife leaving her husband's house without his permission is an act of disobedience.

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