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Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Marwan ibn
al-Hakam decided that if someone made three pronouncements of divorce,
he had divorced his wife irrevocably.
Muwatta Malik Book 29, Hadith 4
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Abu Bakr
ibn Hazm thatUmar ibn Abd al-Aziz had asked him what people said about
the 'irrevocable' divorce, and Abu Bakr had replied that Aban ibn
Uthman had clarified that it was declared only once. Umar ibn Abd al-
Aziz said, "Even if divorce had to be declared a thousand times,
the'irrevocable' would use them all up. A person who says,
'irrevocably' has cast the furthest limit."
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Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibn
al-Khattab had heard in a letter from Iraq that a man said to his
wife, "Your rein is on your withers (i.e. you have free rein)." Umar
ibn al-Khattab wrote to his governor to order the man to come to him
at Makka at the time of hajj. While Umar was doing tawaf around the
House, a man met him and greeted him. Umar asked him who he was, and
he replied that he was the man that he had ordered to be brought to
him. Umar said to him, "I ask you by the Lord of this building, what
did you mean by your statement, 'Your rein is on your withers.'?" The
man replied, "Had you made me swear by other than this place, I would
not have told you the truth. I intended separation by that." Umar ibn
al- Khattab said, "It is what you intended."