The ruling on “talaq, talaq, talaq” without mentioning the wife

Question

Question: I (Muhammad Harun) am married to the daughter of Akhtar ‘Ali; Safdar ‘Ali is my full brother-in-law (my wife’s brother). Safdar ‘Ali is married to the daughter of Shaykh ‘Alim for a mahr owed as a debt (dayn mahr) of eleven hundred rupees and one ashrafi (gold coin). I, as a witness, give the following statement. This husband had gone to the field to work.

Answer

A man gives talaq only to his own wife. Sometimes he explicitly attributes it to her, for example: “I have given talaq to my wife”; sometimes he neither explicitly attributes it to his wife nor attributes the act of giving talaq to himself, but says only: “Talaq given”, or “It is talaq”, or simply “Talaq” — and what he has in mind is precisely that “I have given talaq to my…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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