What is the legal consequence if a husband says, 'O one hundred times divorced' or 'You are one hundred times divorced'?
Chapter on Divorce by Calculation
Al-Mughni
Book of Divorce
Primary text
If a husband says, 'O one hundred times divorced' (ya mi'ah taliq) or 'You are one hundred times divorced,' three divorces occur. Likewise, if he says, 'You are divorced like one hundred' or 'like one thousand,' it results in three divorces. Ahmad ruled this way for someone saying, 'You are divorced like a thousand divorces,' and this is the view held by Muhammad ibn al-Hasan and some Shafi'i scholars.
Supporting text
Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf maintain that if the husband had no specific intention (niyyah), only one divorce occurs because he did not explicitly state the number, but merely likened it to one thousand, and similarity alone is not the operative factor for causing the divorce count.