It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "In a state of extreme anger or coercion (ighlaq), there is neither divorce nor the freeing of a slave." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it. Abu Safwan al-Umawi corroborated Muhammad bin Ishaq's narration, but dropped the name of Muhammad bin Ubayd from the chain.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "In a state of ighlaq (extreme anger or coercion), there is neither divorce nor freeing of a slave ('ataq)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Amir al-Juhani (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Shall I not tell you about the borrowed billy-goat (the ram for hire)?" The Companions said: "Certainly, O Messenger of Allah." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He is the one who performs halalah (al-muhallil). May Allah Almighty curse the one who performs halalah and the one for whom halalah is performed." Abu Salih, the scribe of al-Layth, mentioned that al-Layth heard it from Mishrah bin Ha'an.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Shall I not tell you about the borrowed billy-goat (that is, the ram for hire)? He is the one who performs halalah (al-muhallil)." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "May Allah Almighty curse the one who performs halalah and the one for whom halalah is performed (al-muhallal lahu)." This hadith is sahih (authentic) in its chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a man asked him about a man who had divorced his wife with three pronouncements, after which his brother married her, without any (prior) consultation with him, merely with the intention of making her lawful for his brother: would she be lawful for the first husband? He said: "No, unless it is a marriage of genuine desire. In the blessed time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) we used to regard such a thing as fornication (sifah)." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Rukanah bin Abd Yazid (may Allah be pleased with him) that in the blessed time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) he divorced his wife with the word «al-battah» (that is, decisively and irrevocably). He relates: I asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about this, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "What did you intend by it?" He said: I intended only one divorce. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By Allah (did you mean only one)?" He said: Yes, by Allah! He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then it is what you intended." Although the two Shaykhs turned away from the narration of al-Zubayr bin Sa'id al-Hashimi in their two Sahihs, this hadith has a corroborating narration (mutabi') from the family of Rukanah bin Abd Yazid, by which the hadith is established as sahih.

It is narrated from Nafi' bin Ujayr bin Abd Yazid that Sayyiduna Rukanah bin Abd Yazid (may Allah be pleased with him) divorced his wife Suhaymah with the word «al-battah» . Then he came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: I have divorced my wife Suhaymah with «al-battah» , and by Allah! I intended only one divorce. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) returned her to him. Then he gave her the second divorce in the time of Sayyiduna Umar and the third in the time of Sayyiduna Uthman. With this narration the hadith is established as sahih, because Imam al-Shafi'i memorised it with great precision from the people of his own family and narrated it. Al-Sa'ib bin Abd Yazid (the father of Shafi' bin al-Sa'ib) was the brother of Rukanah, and Muhammad bin Ali bin Shafi', who was the paternal uncle of Imam al-Shafi'i, was an eminent elder of Quraysh in his time.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Thawban (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Any woman who asks her husband for divorce without any (legitimate) harm or pressing need, Allah Almighty will forbid her (even) the fragrance of Paradise." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that in the blessed time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) a woman accepted Islam and (then) married (another man). Then her (first) husband came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: I had accepted Islam together with her, and she knew of my accepting Islam. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) separated her from her second husband and returned her to the first husband. This hadith has a sahih chain of transmission, but the two Shaykhs did not record it. It is of the kind about which I say that Imam Bukhari used Ikrimah as evidence and Imam Muslim used Simak as evidence.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) returned his daughter Sayyidah Zaynab (may Allah be pleased with her) to her husband Abu al-As bin al-Rabi' on the basis of the first marriage itself, and did not do anything new (such as a new marriage contract or dower).