Muwatta Malik

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