Divorce by a boy

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The divorce of a child does not take effect.

Al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The divorce of a child does not take effect.

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him) said: When a child understands prayer and fasting, his divorce is valid.

He said: And al-Hasan said: His divorce is not valid until he reaches puberty.

Isma'il bin Imran al-Anazi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I was a boy who had not reached puberty when I gave a divorce, and I asked Sa'id bin al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him) about it. He said: If you have learned the prayer and have fasted Ramadan, then your divorce is valid.

Ali bin Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I asked al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him): if a boy gives three divorces, what is the ruling? He said: If he understood that three divorces bring about separation, I do not think the two of them may stay together.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Keep the marriage of young boys concealed from them.

The same is reported through another chain.

Al-Dahhak (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Keep the marriage of young boys concealed from them. And he said: Every divorce is valid except the divorce of the ma'tuh (mentally deficient) and of one suffering from birsam, that is, an illness in which a person begins to talk incoherently.

Al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: A boy's freeing of a slave, his marriage, and anything else he does carry no weight.

Al-Qa'qa' (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I asked Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) about the divorce of a boy, and he said: Women are plentiful.

Al-Qa'qa' (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I asked Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) about the divorce of a boy, and he said: It is nothing, and women are plentiful.

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The predecessors used to marry off children while they were young and keep the marriage concealed from them, for fear that divorce might come upon their tongues.

Sufyan (may Allah have mercy on him) said: If it (the word of divorce) did occur, they did not regard it as anything.

Al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The divorce of a boy carries no weight.

Shu'bah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I asked al-Hakam (may Allah have mercy on him) and Hammad (may Allah have mercy on him) about the divorce of a boy, and they said: It is not valid.