Narrated Ibn 'Abbas (RA): Abu Rukana divorced Umm Rukana. So Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) told him, "Take your wife back." And he replied, "I have divorced her with three pronouncements." He said, "I have understood, take her back." [Reported by Abu Dawud] . A wording by Ahmad has: Abu Rukana divorced his wife with three pronouncements, in one sitting. Then, he was grieved about her and Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) told him, "They (the three pronouncements) are reckoned as a single (utterance of divorce)." [The two Ahadith have Ibn Ishaq, in their chains of narrators, and his reliability has been questioned] . Abu Dawud has reported (a Hadith) better than the aforesaid one through another chain, it has: "Abu Rukana divorced his wife Suhaimah irrevocably and said, 'I swear by Allah that I meant it to be only a single utterance of divorce,' so the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) returned her to him."