Alqamah said: A man came to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) and said that he had given his wife eight divorces last night. He asked: All at once? He said: In one statement. He asked: Do they want to separate your wife from you? He said: Yes. The narrator said then another man came who had given his wife a hundred divorces. He asked: All at once? He said: Yes (that is, he said, I have given a hundred divorces). Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: So people, considering it an irrevocable divorce, want to separate your wife from you. He replied: Yes. So Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Whoever gave divorce according to the command of Allah Almighty (one by one), Allah Almighty has explained it, and whoever mixed things up, we have left him to that confusion. By Allah, you make the mess, should we bear its burden? Now the decision is as you have made it, that is, (the divorce is irrevocable).