Amr bin Shu'ayb narrates from his father, and he from his grandfather (Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As, may Allah be pleased with them both), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no divorce before marriage." And in the narration of Hushaym: "The son of Adam has no valid vow in what he does not own, no divorce in what he does not own, and no freeing of a slave in what he does not own."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that concerning a man who says, "If I marry such-and-such a woman, she is divorced," he said: "Ibn Mas'ud would not have said this, and if he did say it, it is the slip of a scholar (that is, the woman will not be divorced), because Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, says: 'O you who believe! When you marry believing women and then divorce them' [Surah al-Ahzab: 49] ; Allah did not say, 'When you divorce believing women and then marry them.'" This hadith has a sahih chain of transmission, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.