Salam. A husband had misundersting with his wife regarding a trip she intended to make and the husband warned her that if she make that trip, SHE CEASED TO BE HIS WIFE and she still enberk on the trip. Question: does that his pronoucement means single divorce or all in one (3 divorce)- meaning they can not remary again except she marry some one else ?

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It is not permissible for a woman to go out of her husband's house without his permission, whether for a trip or for any other purpose. Therefore, this woman is wrong if she went out on this trip without the permission of her husband and thus she is considered a recalcitrant wife.

As regards this expression that her husband had uttered, it is probable that he threatened her with divorce if she travels, so she is not divorced unless he wishes to divorce her (fulfills his promise to divorce her).

It is also probable that he conditioned her divorce upon her travelling, in which case, it is a conditional divorce issued with a metaphor of divorce. For divorce to be effective with a metaphor, it depends on whether or not the husband had intended it. So, if he intended divorce, divorce takes place.

Also, if he did not utter the word ‘three times/thrice’, then divorce does not take place three times but only once. Hence, if this divorce is not preceded by two divorces, then she is still his wife and he has the right to take her back without a new contract as long she is still in her waiting period.

For more benefit on the kinds of divorce, please refer to Fatwa 82541.

Allaah Knows best.