The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about a man who divorced his wife with a final divorce, meaning three pronouncements, and she then married another man who divorced her before consummating the marriage. Could she return to her first husband?He replied, "No, not until the second husband tastes of her sweetness as the first one did."
سئل رسول الله ﷺ عن رجل طلق امرأته البتة، يعني ثلاثا، فتزوجت رجلا، فطلقها قبل أن يدخل بها، أترجع إلى الأول؟ فقال: لا حتى يذوق من عسيلتها ما ذاق صاحبه.
Abu Yaala (4066) narrated it from Abdullah bin Umar, he said, Yahya bin Zakariya narrated to us, from Yahya bin Saeed, from Nafi, from Ibn Umar, similarly. That is, similar to the hadith of Ayesha, since he mentioned the hadith of Ayesha before it. Its isnad is sahih. Abdullah bin Umar is the son of Aban, known as Mishkadana, the scholar of hadith who was among the teachers of Abdullah bin Ahmad. Abu Bakr bin Abu Shayba praised him, and Ahmad confirmed his reliability. He died in the year 239 AH. See Aqeeli (845). Haythami mentioned it in Majma (4/340) and said, "Tabarani narrated it, and so did Abu Yaala, except that he said, 'similar to the hadith of Ayesha,' and it is close to this. The men of Abu Yaala's narration are the men of the Sahih."The hadith of Abdullah bin Umar has other chains of transmission, including one narrated by Nasai (3414), Ibn Majah (1933), Ahmad (5571), and Bayhaqi (7/375), all of them from the hadith of Muhammad bin Jafar, who said, Shuba narrated to us, from Alqama bin Marthad, who said, I heard Salim bin Razin narrating from Salim bin Abdullah, from Saeed bin Musayab, from Ibn Umar, and he related it. Its isnad is daif because of Salim bin Razin. Bukhari said, "No argument can be established by Salim bin Razin, nor by Razin, because it is not known whether he heard from Salim, nor from Abdullah bin Umar." Tarikh al-Kabir (4/13).He is referring to what Nasai (3415) and others narrated from Waki, who said, Sufyan narrated to us, from Alqama bin Marthad, from Razin bin Sulayman Ahmari, from Ibn Umar, and he related it. Nasai said, "This is more likely to be correct." Razin bin Sulayman is the same as Salim bin Razin, and there is disagreement about his name, some saying it this way, and others saying Sulayman bin Razin.It has also been narrated through other routes from Ibn Umar as a raised (marfu) hadith, except that Bukhari preferred the stopped (mawquf) version attributed to Ibn Umar. See Tarikh al-Kabir (4/13). Bayhaqi (7/375) said, "It has reached me about Muhammad bin Ismail Bukhari that he weakened both the hadith of Shuba and that of Sufyan."On this subject there is also what was narrated from Anas bin Malik, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about a man who had a wife under him, and he divorced her three times, and after him she married another man, who divorced her before consummating the marriage with her, is she lawful for her first husband? He said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "No, not until the last one has tasted her sweetness and she has tasted his sweetness."Ahmad (14024), Bazzar in Kashf Astar (1505), Abu Yaala (4199), and Bayhaqi (7/375–376) narrated it, all of them through routes from Muhammad bin Dinar Abdi, who said, Yahya bin Yazid narrated to me, from Anas bin Malik, and he related it. Muhammad bin Dinar Abdi is disputed, though his hadith is hasan when he does not contradict others. Here, however, Shuba contradicted him, for Shuba narrated it from Yahya bin Yazid as a stopped (mawquf) report from Anas bin Malik. Ibn Abu Shayba narrated it in his Musannaf (4/275) from Ghundar, from Shuba, with this wording, and this is more sahih.