4. Humayd ibn Ziyad has narrated from al-Hassan ibn Muhammad ibn Sama‘ah from Ja‘far ibn Sama‘ah and Ali ibn Khalid from ‘Abd al-Karim ibn ‘Amr from ‘Amr ibn al-Bara’ who has said the following: “I once said to abu ‘Abd Allah , ‘Our people say that if one divorces (pronounces the expression for divorce) his wife once or one hundred times it counts only one divorce.’ It has been narrated to us from you that your ancestors, ‘Alayhim al-Salam, have stated this Hadith.

‘If one divorces his wife (at one time and place) once or one hundred times it counts only one divorce.” He (the Imam) said, ‘It is just as it is narrated to you.””