Islamic Fiqh > Marriage and family > Talak (repudiation) > Types of talaq: sunna, innovation and divorce during menses
Updated on 06 October 2026 at 10:50 PM
These sheets from the fiqh encyclopedia (al-Mawsua al-fiqhiyya), chapter on talaq (divorce), examine the rulings of divorce according to the four schools: the recommended divorce, the obligatory divorce, the disliked divorce and the forbidden divorce, then the innovated divorce pronounced during menstruation or in the purity of intercourse, the cause of its prohibition, the question of whether it takes effect, the divorce that is neither sunni nor bid'i, and the threefold divorce of the unconsummated wife. The positions of the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali schools are reported with their classical sources and the hadiths that ground the discussion.