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Hadith 34956
Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that a man came
to Abdullah ibn Umar, and said, "Abu Abd ar-Rahman! I placed the
command of my wife in her hand, and she divorced herself, what do you
think?" Abdullah ibn Umar said, "I think that it is as she said." The
man said, "Don't do it, Abu Abd ar-Rahman!" Ibn Umar said, "You did
it, it has nothing to do with me."
Muwatta Malik Book 29, Hadith 10
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Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard Ibn Shihab say that
if a man said to his wife, "You are free of me, and I am free of you,
" it counted as three pronouncements of divorce as if it were an
'irrevocable' divorce.
Malik said that if a man made any
strong statement such as these to his wife, it counted as three
pronouncements of divorce for a woman whose marriage had been
consummated, or it was written as one of three for a woman whose
marriage had not been consummated, whichever the man wished. If he
said he intended only one divorce he swore to it and he became one of
the suitors because, whereas a woman whose marriage had been
consummated was made inaccessible by three pronouncements of divorce,
the woman whose marriage had not been consummated was made
inaccessible by only one pronouncement.
Malik said, "That is
the best of what I have heard." Muwatta Malik Book 29, Hadith 9
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar
said, "When a man gives a woman command over herself, then the result
is as she decides unless he denies it and says that he only meant to
give her one divorce and he swears to it - then he has access to her
while she is in her idda." Muwatta Malik Book 29, Hadith 11