The people, and a man would divorce his wife as many times as he wished, and she would still remain his wife so long as he took her back while she was still in her waiting period, even if he divorced her a hundred times or more. This continued until one man said to his wife, "By Allah, I will not divorce you in a way that frees you from me, nor will I ever shelter you."She asked, "How will you do that?"He replied, "I will divorce you, and every time your waiting period is about to end, I will take you back."The woman went to Ayesha and told her what had happened. Ayesha remained silent until the Prophet ﷺ came, and she informed him. The Prophet ﷺ also remained silent until the Quran was revealed, "Divorce is twice. Then either keep her in an acceptable manner or release her with kindness" [Baqarah 2:229].Ayesha said, "So the people resumed divorce afresh from that point onward, both those who had previously divorced and those who had not."Abu Kurayb Muhammad bin Ala narrated to us, Abdullah bin Idris narrated to us from Hisham bin Urwa from his father a similar hadith with the same meaning, but he did not mention it from Ayesha.
حدثنا قتيبة حدثنا يعلى بن شبيب عن هشام بن عروة عن أبيه
كان الناس والرجل يطلق امرأته ما شاء أن يطلقها وهي امرأته إذا ارتجعها وهي في العدة وإن طلقها مائة مرة أو أكثر حتى قال رجل لامرأته والله لا أطلقك فتبيني مني ولا آويك أبدا قالت وكيف ذاك قال أطلقك فكلما همت عدتك أن تنقضي راجعتك فذهبت المرأة حتى دخلت على عائشة فأخبرتها فسكتت عائشة حتى جاء النبي ﷺ فأخبرته فسكت النبي ﷺ حتى نزل القرآن {الطلاق مرتان فإمساك بمعروف أو تسريح بإحسان} قالت عائشة فاستأنف الناس الطلاق مستقبلا من كان طلق ومن لم يكن طلق حدثنا أبو كريب محمد بن العلاء حدثنا عبد الله بن إدريس عن هشام بن عروة عن أبيه نحو هذا الحديث بمعناه ولم يذكر فيه عن عائشة
[Hasan] Bayhaqi narrated it in 7/333, from the hadith of Yaala bin Shabib, who is lenient in hadith transmission as noted in Taqrib and elsewhere. Nevertheless, Hakim graded it sahih in 2/280, but Dhahabi took issue with him on this. Bayhaqi also narrated it in 7/367 from the hadith of Ibn Ishaq, who said, Hisham narrated to me, from his father, from Ayesha, with a similar meaning. The hadith has other corroborating narrations.