What is the liability upon witnesses who testify to a divorce if the husband subsequently retracts the marriage testimony?
General Chapter
Al-Mughni
Book of Judicial Rulings
Primary text
If two witnesses testify to a divorce subsequent to the marriage testimony, no liability falls upon those divorce witnesses. This is because their testimony did not deprive the man of anything he was claiming, nor did it obligate him to something that was not already incumbent upon him.