The need for witnesses when the husband admits talaq

Question

Question: The questioner obtained several answers from different places to one question concerning talaq, and is now perplexed by them. Having examined this issue, the respected Mufti Mahmud wrote the following answer.

Answer

An answer is written according to the wording of the question: if different questions are written and an answer is requested from one place or from several places, the answers too will differ. In a matter of talaq, testimony is needed when the husband denies it; when the husband admits it, there is no need for testimony at all: whatever talaq he admits, that talaq will be…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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