Mālik. Shaykh Abū al-Barakāt ibn Taymiyya would sometimes issue fatwas to this effect. He and others cite as evidence the hadith reported by Muslim in his Sahīh, Abū Dāwūd, and others, through Tāwūs, from Ibn Abbās, who said:

“During the time of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, during Abū Bakr’s time, and for two years of Umar’s caliphate, a triple divorce was counted as one. Then Umar ibn al-Khattāb said, ‘People have rushed into a matter in which they had room for deliberation. What if we made it binding upon them?’ So he made it binding upon them.”

Another version relates that Abū al-Sahbāʾ said to Ibn Abbās:

“Tell us something of what you know. Was not a triple divorce counted as one during the time of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and Abū Bakr?”

He replied: “That was indeed so. But during Umar’s time, people began resorting to divorce in quick succession, so he made it binding upon them and upheld its effect.”

Those who rejected this hadith offered strained interpretations of it. Likewise, every report stating that “the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, made three divorces binding on account of an oath pronouncing them all at once, or that someone in his time pronounced them all at once and he held him bound by them”—such as a report narrated from Ali, another from Ubāda ibn al-Sāmit, another through al-Hasan from Ibn Umar, and others—is weak by the agreement of hadith scholars. Indeed, these reports are fabricated, and scholars versed in hadith criticism recognize them as fabrications, as explained at length elsewhere.

Their strongest objection to this hadith is their statement: “It is established through several routes that Ibn Abbās issued fatwas declaring three divorces binding.”