two women, and he brings them forward, the payment is not established, because his evidence is incomplete. According to the madhhab, two women are not sufficient together with an oath. However, the khulʿ is established by his admission, because he has admitted that the woman is divorced from him by khulʿ and is no longer lawful for him. Consider the precision of these rulings, for someone might say: How can you say that the khulʿ is established when he has not received anything? We reply: His claim of khulʿ entails two matters: an admission against himself that the marriage has irrevocably ended, and a claim against the woman for the compensation. As for his claim against the woman for the compensation, we have found no evidence for it. But we rule that she has separated from him, because his claim that she obtained a khulʿ divorce from him is an admission against himself.

But if she claims that her husband granted her a khulʿ divorce in exchange for ten thousand riyals, and she produces one man and two women, it is not accepted: neither the khulʿ nor the payment is established, because establishing the payment as due from her is contingent upon establishing the khulʿ, and the khulʿ in this case has not been established.