Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that a man came
to Abdullah ibn Masud and said, "I have divorced my wife by saying I
divorce you eight times." Ibn Masud said to him, "What have people
told you?" He replied, "I have been told that I have to part
absolutely from her." Ibn Masud said, "They have spoken the truth. A
person who divorces as Allah has commanded, Allah makes it clear for
him, and a person who obscures himself in error, we make stay by his
error. So do not confuse yourselves and pull us into your confusion.
It is as they have said."