What is the ruling regarding the consumption of property (sexual relations) when two men make mutually exclusive oaths regarding their wives' divorce based on the bird's identity, and the situation results in uncertainty about which wife is divorced?
Chapter on Divorce by Calculation
Al-Mughni
Book of Divorce
Primary text
Since it is certain that one of these two men has divorced his wife, making her forbidden to him, and differentiation is impossible, sexual relations are forbidden for both men. This situation is comparable to when one of two identical vessels becomes impure, rendering the use of both forbidden.