23. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Jamil an ibn Bukayr and Hammad ibn ‘Uthaman who has said the following:

“Abu ‘Abd Allah , has said, ‘If one who has expressed al-Zihar (calling one’s wife as one’s mother) about his wife, divorces her then expiation cancels out and it no more is applicable to his case.’” Ali ibn Ibrahim has said that if a man divorces his wife or takes his slave-girl out of his possession he then does not owe expiation of al-Zihar unless he goes back to his wife and returns his slave-girl into his possession. When he does so then it is not proper for him to go near them without paying the expiation.