Revocation also remains valid once the bleeding of the third menstrual period has stopped, provided she has not yet performed the ritual bath, and it is likewise valid before the birth of a later-delivered child.

The commonly used formulas are: rājaʿtu-hā, rajaʿtu-hā, irtajaʿtu-hā, amsaktu-hā, raddadtu-hā, and the like.

These particular words are not required; revocation is effected simply by intercourse with her—not by saying nikaḥtu-hā or tazawwajtu-hā (‘I have married you’).

If she performs the ritual bath after her third period and he has not reclaimed her, she becomes separated (bāʾin) from him and is not lawful for him again except through a new marriage contract, with only the remaining number of divorces still at his disposal.

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When a free man has divorced his wife three times, or a male slave has divorced her twice, she is not lawful for him until she marries another husband in a valid marriage and that husband has intercourse with her in the vagina with erection, even if he is insane, asleep, or unconscious, even if she guides his penis into her vagina¹, or he is younger than ten, or he does not ejaculate.

The mere insertion of the glans—or its equivalent in a man whose glans has been removed—is sufficient, and this consummation renders her lawful for the first husband so long as the intercourse does not take place during menstruation, postpartum bleeding, a state of pilgrim sanctity (iḥrām), or an obligatory fast.

If the second husband subsequently divorces her and she claims that he did consummate the marriage while he denies it, his word is accepted concerning the halving² of the dowry, whereas her word is accepted regarding her permissibility for the first husband.