What is the ruling if a man says to the first wife: 'If you swear by divorcing you, you are divorced,' and then says to the second wife: 'If you swear by divorcing your co-wife, she is divorced'?
Chapter on Explicit Divorce and Others
Al-Mughni
Book of Divorce
Primary text
The first wife is divorced. Furthermore, whenever one of these two conditions is repeated, the first wife is divorced a second time, and so on, up to the third time. No divorce takes effect upon the second wife due to this arrangement.