What is the legal effect if a husband says, 'If you enter the house, you are divorced, and divorced, and divorced,' and the wife then enters?

Chapter on Explicit Divorce and Others

Al-Mughni

Book of Divorce

Book 39 · Issue 3 · Bab 2

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Primary text

If a husband says, 'If you enter the house, you are divorced, and divorced, and divorced,' and the wife enters, three divorces occur. This is the view held by Abu Yusuf, Muhammad, and one of the two recognized opinions among the companions of Al-Shafi'i. The evidence is that the condition for three divorces, which are not temporally ordered, was met, thus all three occur, similar to the previous case.

Supporting text

Abu Hanifa holds that only one divorce occurs. His reasoning is that when the condition of a suspended divorce is met, it is as if he enacted it in that moment according to its form, and if he had enacted it that way, only one would have occurred.