Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Bukayribn Abdullah al-Ashajj informed him that Muawiya ibn Abi Ayyash al-Ansari told him that he was sitting with Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr andAsim ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab when Muhammad ibn Iyas ibn al-Bukayr cameup to them and said, "A man from the desert has divorced his wifethree times before consummating the marriage, what do you think?"Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr said "This is something about which we have nostatement. Go to Abdullah ibn Abbas and Abu Hurayra. I left them withA'isha. Ask them and then come and tell us." He went and asked them.Ibn Abbas said to Abu Hurayra, "Give an opinion, Abu Hurayra! Adifficult one has come to you." Abu Hurayra said, "One pronouncementseparates her and three makes her haram until she has married anotherhusband." Ibn Abbas said the like of that.Malik said, "Thatis what is done among us, and when a man marries a woman who has beenmarried before, and he has not had intercourse with her, she istreated as a virgin - one pronouncement separates her and three makeher haram until she has married another husband."
USC-MSA web (English) reference: Book 29, Hadith 38
Arabic reference: Book 29, Hadith 1197