The ruling on talaq when a thumbprint is forcibly put on a divorce deed

Question

Question: Muhammad Hanif married Nur Afshan Begum, daughter of Muhammad Siddiq, four years ago. The girl’s father is employed at a company in Calcutta; he got his son-in-law a position in the company. The wife stayed at her parents’ home with her parents, and Muhammad Hanif kept giving her expenses and the like; for a month or a month and a half each year she would go to her husband. In short, the whole family lived happily.

Answer

If two upright (‘adl) men whose testimony is acceptable testify: “In our presence Muhammad Hanif gave his wife a major (mughallaza) divorce with his tongue,” or that he had three talaqs written in the divorce deed, or that the divorce deed was read out to him and, having heard and understood it, he put his thumbprint on it, and he was not coerced in putting this thumbprint —…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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