Sayyidah Ayshah (RA) narrated During pre-Islamic days, a man would divorce his wife as many times as he chose and he would revoke the divorce during her iddah-a hundred times ormore than that. In fact, a man said to his wife, “By Allah! I will never divorce you so that you remain with me and I will never approach you.’ She asked, ‘How is that?’ He said, “I will divorce you and every time your iddab is to end, I will take you back.’ The woman went till she met Sayyidah Ayshah and informed her (of her plight). Sayyidah Ayshah (RA) kept quiet and said nothing till the Prophet (SAW) came home and she informed him. He did not say anything till the Qur’an was revealed:
“Divorce is twice then either a retention with honour or a release with kindness.” (2:229)
Sayyidah Ayshah (RA) said that thereafter people kept count of the divorce those who had pronounced previously and these too who had not.
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