Giving one’s wife to another man

Question

Question: Three men joked with a fourth man: “If you bring 30 rupees and three pairs of clothes, then the three of us will each give you his wife; and if you do not bring 30 rupees and three pairs of clothes, a fine will be taken from you; and if we do not give, then you take it back.” Now that man somehow brings 30 rupees and three pairs of clothes and gave them to them; they dressed their respective women in those clothes, sent them off with that man and said: “We have given to you.

Answer

The nikah of these three women with that fourth man did not come into being. If the husbands of all three said to their wives, “Marry this man,” and intended talaq by it, then talaq has taken effect. And if they said, “We have freed them and then married them to you,” then talaq has taken effect for all three: [ar]وبابتغي الأزواج تقع واحدة بائنة إن نواها أو اثنتين وثلاث إن…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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