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Does divorce occur by saying "You are as you said" to a wife who requested divorce over the phone, with the intention of not effecting divorce?

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It is not permissible for a woman to seek divorce without a legitimate Shar'i excuse, due to the saying of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: "Any woman who asks her husband for divorce without any real cause, the scent of Paradise will be forbidden to her." And your saying to your wife "as you said," in response to her statement "divorce me," is considered an implied divorce (kinayah), and divorce does not occur by it unless there is the intention. So, if you did not intend divorce by what was uttered by you, then nothing is binding upon you.

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