Talaq by the Words “From My Side It Is Settled”

Question

Question: Zayd, because of suspicion and on the word of people, slandered his wife and said: «وہیں جا کر رہو، میں تم کو رکھنا نہیں چاہتا» (“Go and live right there; I do not want to keep you”), and turned her out. The woman sat in another house until evening, but then the Muslims reconciled them, and the woman again began living with her husband. After a few days there was a quarrel again, and the husband said: «میرا دل تم سے رجوع نہیں، اور میری جائداد اور بچوں پر تمہارا کوئی حق نہیں، تم رہو یا نہ رہو»

Answer

If Zayd intended talaq by the said words, then an irrevocable (ba‘in) talaq has fallen on his wife, and she has completely left Zayd’s nikah; after the ‘idda has passed she may marry whomever she wishes: [ar]كنايته ما لم يوضع له أي الطلاق واحتمله وغيره، فالكنايات لا تطلق بها قضاء إلا بنية أو دلالة الحال[/ar] “Its allusive form (kinaya) is that which was not coined for it, i.e.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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