`Umar therefore considered what was advantageous for them...

`Umar therefore considered what was advantageous for them and decided to regard the three-time divorce that was said on the same occasion as valid.[^5] However, have the Muslim jurisprudents, throughout ages, agreed to what `Umar had done?

The majority have agreed to `Umar while others have not![^6] In my conception, the judgment in this matter relies upon the people’s advantages; if the men in authority consider, as `Umar did, that the advantage requires deciding the three-time divorce as valid, they should then do; but if they consider that the public advantage requires regarding it as one only, they should also do it. Yet, up to two years after the reign of `Umar, the three-time divorce was regarded as one.

On this account, Ibn al-Qayyim has decided that to regard such divorce as one (i.e. not final) is more corresponding to the public advantage in the late ages as it will block the path before any social corruption.[^7] Ibn al-Qayyim then makes a…