—not a thing whatsoever.
Ibn al-Qayyim said: “A woman who has been irrevocably divorced is entitled to neither maintenance nor housing, according to the sound Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ—fully in harmony with the Book of Allah. This is also required by analogy and is the position adopted by the experts of hadith.”
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The hadith cited in this chapter was transmitted to clarify whether a divorced woman must remain in the dwelling she was occupying at the moment of divorce, in contrast to the widow whose waiting period obliges her to stay in the house where her husband died while she was living there.
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It is unlawful for a woman to reside alone in a dwelling where no one else is present if she fears the people of corruption; her guardian is required to order her to relocate.
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The threefold divorce mentioned by the questioner, Fāṭimah bint Qays, may mean that the three pronouncements were issued all at once, or that they merely constituted the final allowable divorce. The wording suggests that he pronounced them in a single session, yet the hadith itself was not narrated to establish whether that practice is valid or invalid.