What is the ruling if a husband says, "You are divorced immediately before my death, or immediately before Zayd's arrival"?

Chapter on Explicit Divorce and Others

Al-Mughni

Book of Divorce

Book 39 · Issue 12 · Bab 2

Open in Qurani

Primary text

The divorce does not take effect immediately, but rather in the very next instant following the death or arrival, because this phrasing implies a contraction of time (*tasghir*) necessitating the smallest remaining portion of time.