Saeed bin Musayyib said: When a man gives his wife the authority to divorce, but the woman does not accept separation from her husband and wishes to remain with him, then the divorce will not take place.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said: In the gathering in which the husband gives the wife the right of divorce, the wife will have the right only in that gathering. If the gathering disperses and the wife has not taken the divorce, then the right will no longer remain.