The consequence of receiving two conditional divorce statements via a single letter.

Chapter on Explicit Divorce and Others

Al-Mughni

Book of Divorce

Book 39 · Issue 7 · Bab 2

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Primary text

If a man first states to his wife, 'If my divorce reaches you, you are divorced,' and then writes to her, 'If my letter reaches you, you are divorced,' and the letter reaches her, she is divorced twice because both conditions (the arrival of the divorce statement and the arrival of the letter) are fulfilled by the letter's arrival.

Supporting text

If the writer subsequently claims that by writing the second statement, he intended to establish the divorce based on the first condition (the arrival of the divorce decree), this claim is subject to two differing narrations regarding its acceptance in legal judgment.