Ruling on saying three times “if there are children, you are divorced”

Question

Zayd came to his wife for intercourse, but his wife refused intimacy. At this Zayd went away from there, lay down on his cot and said: “قسم خدا کی اگر اولاد ہوئی تو تجھے طلاق ہے” (“By God, if there are children, then you are divorced”), and he said these words three times. Now a child has been born. What way is there to keep this wife?

Answer

[ar]في أيمان الفتح: وقد عرف في الطلاق أنه لو قال: إن دخلت الدار فأنت طالق، إن دخلت الدار فأنت طالق، إن دخلت الدار فأنت طالق، وقع الثلاث، يعني بدخول واحد، كما تدل عليه عبارة أيمان الفتح[/ar] “In the Book of Oaths of ‘al-Fath’: it is known in the chapter of talaq that if he said: ‘If you enter the house you are divorced, if you enter the house you are divorced, if you enter the…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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