Marriage with a Woman Divorced Against the Sunnah

“Abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘You must remain on your guard in the case of married women who are divorced against the Sunnah.’ I asked him (the Imam) that a man has divorced his wife and I am interested. He (the Imam) said, ‘Meet him after he divorces her and waiting period is complete with him then ask him, ‘Have you divorced so and so?’ If he said, ‘Yes, I have divorced her’, this is one divorce during a menses free period. From the time he has divorced her until waiting period is complete then you can marry and divorce has made them complete strangers to each other.’”

“I once said to abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), ‘One of your followers offers greetings of peace to you and he wants to marry a woman who has agreed and he likes her due to certain matters about her and she has a husband who has divorced her three times on non-Sunnah basis. He dislikes marrying her without your instruction so you command him to do so. Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), said, ‘It is an issue of marriage and the matter of marriage is severe because from marriage are children and we maintain precaution, so he must not marry her.’”

“About the case of a man who divorces his wife three times and then another man wants to marry her and about what he must do, abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘He must wait until she experiences one cycle of menses; then he must go to the man who has divorced her and ask him in the presence of two people, ‘Have you divorced so and so?’ If he said, ‘Yes, I have divorced her, then he must leave her alone for three months, then propose to her for marriage.’”

“Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘Beware of the case of a woman divorced three times in one meeting; they are married women.”