Talaq in a State of Anger

Question

A quarrel took place between a husband and wife over household matters. The woman said in anger: “تم مجھ کو جواب دیدو” (“Give me an answer”; in Urdu, “to give an answer” is an idiom meaning “to dismiss, to let go”). The husband said: “جا میری طرف سے جواب ہے” (“Go, from me there is an answer”). When the husband said this, the woman said: “Call your brother.” In the meantime the brother also arrived; upon his arrival the woman said: “Now give talaq.

Answer

In the situation asked about, two talaqs have taken effect: the first an irrevocable (ba’in) one by an allusive (kinaya) expression, the second an irrevocable explicit (sarih) one: [ar]الصَّرِيحُ يَلْحَقُ الصَّرِيحَ وَيَلْحَقُ الْبَائِنَ بِشَرْطِ الْعِدَّةِ[/ar] “An explicit (talaq) attaches to an explicit one and attaches to an irrevocable one, on condition of the (continuing)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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