2200 — Ahmad ibn Salih narrated to us: Abd al-Razzaq informed us: Ibn Jurayj informed us: Ibn Tawus informed me, on the authority of his father, that Abu al-Sahba' said to Ibn Abbas: "Do you know that three [divorces] used to be made as one during the time of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and Abu Bakr, and as three from the time of 'Umar's rule?" Ibn Abbas said: "Yes."

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= Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani, on the authority of Ibrahim ibn Maysara, on the authority of Tawus, that Abu al-Sahba' said to Ibn Abbas: "Give me some of your remarkable statements" (i.e., some of your surprising rulings) — "Was not the triple divorce during the time of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and Abu Bakr, [counted as] one?" He said: "That was indeed the case, but when it was during the time of 'Umar, people became excessive (tatawa'u — and tatawwu' is used regarding evil) in divorce, so he enforced it upon them as three."

And see what follows it.

(1) Its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs [al-Bukhari and Muslim]. Ibn Jurayj — who is 'Abd al-Malik ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz — stated explicitly in this narration that he was informed [by his teacher], so any suspicion of his tadlis is removed. Abd al-Razzaq: he is Ibn Hammam al-San'ani, and Ibn Tawus: he is 'Abdullah ibn Tawus ibn Kaysan al-Yamani.

It is found in Abd al-Razzaq's "Musannaf" (11337), and from his path Muslim transmitted it (1472).

Muslim also transmitted it (1472), and al-Nasa'i in "al-Kubra" (5569) via two paths from Ibn Jurayj, from him.

Muslim also transmitted it (1472) via the path of Abd al-Razzaq, from Ma'mar, from Ibn Tawus, from his father, from Ibn Abbas.

It is in "Musnad Ahmad" (2875).

Al-Hafiz Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali declared this hadith of Ibn Abbas defective in "Mushkil al-Ahadith al-Waridah fi anna al-Talaq al-Thalath Wahidah," and Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Hadi transmitted his criticism from him in his book "Sayr al-Hathith ila 'Ilm al-Talaq al-Thalath," saying: "This hadith, for the imams of Islam, has two approaches: one of them is the path of Imam Ahmad and those who agreed with him, which comes back to discussing the chain of the hadith, its irregularity (shudhudh), and Tawus's being alone in narrating it, for he was not followed [by others]. And a narrator's being alone in a hadith, contradicting the majority, is a defect in the hadith that necessitates hesitation regarding it, and that it be considered irregular (shadhdh) or rejected (munkar), since its meaning was not narrated through any sound path, ="