Is the wife divorced by triple if the husband says, "If I hit you again, you are divorced by triple," and then he hits her, knowing that he did not intend divorce but rather to deter himself and his wife?
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Light beating of a disobedient wife is permissible if admonition and preaching do not work. As for a husband saying to his wife, "If I hit you, you are divorced by three," and then hitting her, this results in the occurrence of a triple divorce according to the majority of scholars, and this is the most correct view. This differs from Ibn Taymiyyah, who holds that divorce does not occur if the husband intended to threaten, not to divorce.
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