Hadith 6052

Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard Ibn Shihab say thatif a man said to his wife, "You are free of me, and I am free of you," it counted as three pronouncements of divorce as if it were an'irrevocable' divorce.Malik said that if a man made anystrong statement such as these to his wife, it counted as threepronouncements of divorce for a woman whose marriage had beenconsummated, or it was written as one of three for a woman whosemarriage had not been consummated, whichever the man wished. If hesaid he intended only one divorce he swore to it and he became one ofthe suitors because, whereas a woman whose marriage had beenconsummated was made inaccessible by three pronouncements of divorce,the woman whose marriage had not been consummated was madeinaccessible by only one pronouncement.Malik said, "That isthe best of what I have heard."