A man who says to his wife "You are not my wife": what does it amount to?

Urwah bin Fa'id (may Allah have mercy on him) said: A man said to his wife, "If you do such-and-such, you are not my wife." The woman did that very thing. Then she went with her husband to Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Layla, and he said: What he intended has taken effect. Then she went with her husband to Abu Abdullah al-Jadali, and he too said: What he intended has taken effect. And Sa'id bin Jubayr (may Allah have mercy on him) said: It is nothing.

And she went with him to Abu Abdullah al-Jadali, and he said: What he intended (takes effect).

And Sa'id bin Jubayr said: It is nothing.

Qatadah said: I said to Sa'id bin al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him): Al-Hajjaj narrates from his father that, regarding a man who said to his wife, "You are not my wife," he said it is one divorce. On hearing this, Sa'id (may Allah have mercy on him) said: That is very far-fetched.

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked: If a man says to his wife several times, while angry, "You are not my wife," what is the ruling? He said: In my view, he could only have reached this point while intending divorce.

Al-Zuhri (may Allah have mercy on him) said: If a man says to his wife, "You are not my wife," his intention is what counts.

Al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) and Ata (may Allah have mercy on him) said: If a man says to his wife, "You are not my wife," it is a lie and it amounts to nothing.

Qatadah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: If he says it to her face and intends divorce, one divorce takes effect.