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Under Sunni Muslim law, a Muslim husband irrevocably divorced his wife by three pronouncements of talaq…

Under Sunni Muslim law, when a marriage is dissolved by an irrevocable threefold pronouncement of divorce, remarriage between the same parties without first fulfilling the…

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Under Sunni Muslim law, a Muslim husband irrevocably divorced his wife by three pronouncements of talaq in three successive tuhrs (talaq-ul-hasan), and subsequently married her again without an intervening marriage (nikah halala). This second marriage is:

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Under Sunni Muslim law, when a marriage is dissolved by an irrevocable threefold pronouncement of divorce, remarriage between the same parties without first fulfilling the condition of an intermediate marriage with another husband (consummated and lawfully dissolved) is a violation of a temporary or relative prohibition and renders the second marriage irregular (fasid), not void (batil).

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