(1) The shaykh stated in *al-Mukhtārāt al-Jaliyya*, p. 108: “Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyya favored the view that divorce counts as only one pronouncement, irrespective of the formula used—even if a man explicitly pronounces three divorces, an irrevocable separation (*baynūna*), a final separation (*batta*), or any other formula—and that a second divorce does not take effect until after =