Does a divorce occur if a husband swears to his wife, saying, "You are divorced" if she does not leave her family's home, and his intention was to intimidate her, not to divorce her, knowing that she did not leave, and he had previously divorced her twice then took her back, and a third time while she was pregnant then took her back?
If a man divorces his wife three times, she becomes unlawful for him until she marries another husband. This is by consensus of the scholars. So, if you divorced your wife twice, then took her back, then divorced her a third time, she has become unlawful for you and is not permissible for you until she marries another husband in a valid marriage of desire, not of tahlil (making her lawful for the first husband), and he divorces her after consummation. You must immediately distance yourself from her because she is a stranger to you after the triple divorce, and intimacy between you is forbidden. The conditional divorce you mentioned has no effect because it occurred after the termination of the marital bond, so it does not apply to a valid subject. According to the majority of scholars, this woman is irrevocably divorced from you with a major separation, so her conditional divorce holds no weight. If, by conditioning the divorce, you only intended to threaten her and not actually divorce her, then you only owe an expiation for breaking an oath if you violate it. This violation occurs if her inability to go with you becomes permanent, provided you did not intend a specific time frame.
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