What is the ruling when a husband says to his wife, 'If you swear by the freeing of my slave, you are divorced,' and then says, 'If you swear by divorcing you, my slave is free'?

Chapter on Explicit Divorce and Others

Al-Mughni

Book of Divorce

Book 39 · Issue 1 · Bab 2

Open in Qurani

Primary text

If the conditions are fulfilled sequentially in the manner stated, divorce occurs. Following this, if the husband says to his slave, 'If you swear by the freeing of you, my wife is divorced,' the slave is freed. Similarly, if the husband says to the slave, 'If you swear by divorcing my wife, you are free,' the slave is freed. If the slave swears by the freeing of himself, the wife is divorced.