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Hadith 34978
Malik said that if a slave-girl, who was the wife of a slave, was
set free before he had consummated the marriage, and she chose
herself, then she had no bride-price and it was a pronouncement of
divorce. That was what was done among them.
Muwatta Malik Book 29, Hadith 32
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Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Said ibn
al-Musayyab said that if a man married a woman, and he was insane or
had a physical defect, she had the right of choice. If she wished she
could stay, and if she wished she could separate from him. Muwatta Malik Book 29, Hadith 31
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Yahya related to me that Malik heard Ibn Shihab say, "When a man
gives his wife the right of choice, and she chooses him, that is not
divorce."
Malik added, "That is the best of what I have
heard."
Malik said that if a woman who had been given the
right of choice by her husband chose herself, she was divorced trebly.
If her husband said, "But I only gave her the right of choice in one,"
he had none of that. That was the best of what he had heard.
Malik said, "If the man gives his wife the right of choice and she
says, 'I accept one', and he says, 'I did not mean that, I have given
the right of choice in all three together,' then if she only accepts
one, she remains with him in her marriage, and that is not separation
if Allah, the Exalted wills." Muwatta Malik Book 29, Hadith 33