Saying before marriage: “If I do not sleep at night in your bed, then three talaqs on my wife”

Question

Badruddin and Sayfuddin are two young men. Badruddin said to Sayfuddin, “Say this: ‘Before your marriage, if I do not sleep at night in your bed, then three talaqs are on my wife.’” Sayfuddin accepted this, and all these words were written on paper. Since then Sayfuddin has been sleeping at night in Badruddin’s bed, but both had in their hearts the thought that if some pressing need or difficulty arose and sleeping together was not possible, then there would be no harm in not sleeping; and this was settled in…

Answer

In this case, since he has not yet married and no woman is in his nikah, no talaq has fallen on his wife on account of these words or this writing. Caution: it is not right for two young men to sleep in one bed; this should be completely avoided.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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