Hadith 920

Narrated Abu Hurairah (RA): Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: "There are three things which, whether undertaken seriously or in jest, are treated as serious: marriage, divorce and taking back a wife after a divorce which is not final." [Reported by al-Arba'a except an-Nasa'i. al-Hakim graded it Sahih (authentic)]. In a narration of Ibn 'Adi, through another chain of narrators, which is Da'if (weak); it has: "Divorce, emancipation and marriage." al-Harith bin Abu Usamah reported from the Hadith of 'Ubadah bin as-Samit [RA) - tracing it to the Prophet (ﷺ): "It is not permissible to play in three things: divorce, marriage and emancipation. Therefore, whoever pronounce (either of) them, they certainly become binding." [Its chain of narrators is Da'if (weak)].