If a female slave, freed during her husband's revocable waiting period, is taken back by her husband before consummation, and subsequently chooses dissolution before consummation, must she start a new waiting period?

General Chapter

Al-Mughni

Book of Waiting Periods ('Iddah)

Book 44 · Issue 3 · Bab 1

Open in Qurani

Primary text

If the newly freed woman, who was not divorced definitively, is taken back by her husband during her waiting period, she has the choice to dissolve the contract after the revocation. If she chooses dissolution before consummation, there are two scholarly opinions regarding the waiting period: one view states she must start a new waiting period as a free woman; the second view states she builds upon the waiting period already observed.