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Go To Your Brother! I Will Divorce You Later!

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I told her that she should leave because I’m really angry and can’t see her right now and then in the effect I told her go to your brother I will divorce you later on but not yet that you can come and take part by part your clothes and things. I didn’t give you talaq right now that it is not haram when you come for taking your things that I also can stay here but if it’s all finished and you have everything then I will give you money and you can leave that.

That was my words like this in a really angry situation.

Did talaaq take place?

In the Name of Allāh, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

In principle, if a husband used an ambiguous term such as “Go to your brother”, an irrevocable ṭalāq will only take effect if the husband uttered the statement with the intention of divorce. If he merely uttered these words out of anger without the intention of divorce, ṭalāq will not take effect.

Further, your statement, “I will divorce you later” does not constitute a ṭalāq as it was a promise for the future tense.

Accordingly, your marriage is intact and ṭalāq did not take place.

And Allāh Taʿālā knows best.

اللباب في شرح الكتاب — عبد الغني بن طالب بن حمادة بن إبراهيم الغنيمي الدمشقي الميداني الحنفي (ت ١٢٩٨هـ) 3/41

والضرب الثاني: الكنايات، ولا يقع بها الطلاق إلا بنيةٍ أو دلالةٍ حالٍ.

الفتاوى العالمكيرية المعروفة بالفتاوى الهندية 1/374

(الفصل الخامس في ‌الكنايات) ‌لا ‌يقع ‌بها ‌الطلاق إلا بالنية أو بدلالة حال

العقود الدرية في تنقيح الفتاوى الحامدية — ابن عابدين، محمد أمين بن عمر بن عبد العزيز عابدين الدمشقي الحنفي (ت ١٢٥٢هـ) 1/38

 ‌صيغة ‌المضارع ‌لا ‌يقع ‌بها ‌الطلاق إلا إذا غلب في الحال كما صرح به الكمال بن الهمام