Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1191
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الأَعْلَى الصَّنْعَانِيُّ، أَنْبَأَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ الْفَزَارِيُّ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ عَجْلاَنَ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ بْنِ خَالِدٍ الْمَخْزُومِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " كُلُّ طَلاَقٍ جَائِزٌ إِلاَّ طَلاَقَ الْمَعْتُوهِ الْمَغْلُوبِ عَلَى عَقْلِهِ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ مَرْفُوعًا إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ عَطَاءِ بْنِ عَجْلاَنَ . وَعَطَاءُ بْنُ عَجْلاَنَ ضَعِيفٌ ذَاهِبُ الْحَدِيثِ . وَالْعَمَلُ عَلَى هَذَا عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَغَيْرِهِمْ أَنَّ طَلاَقَ الْمَعْتُوهِ الْمَغْلُوبِ عَلَى عَقْلِهِ لاَ يَجُوزُ إِلاَّ أَنْ يَكُونَ مَعْتُوهًا يُفِيقُ الأَحْيَانَ فَيُطَلِّقُ فِي حَالِ إِفَاقَتِهِ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Abd al-A'la al-San'ani informed us: Marwan ibn Muawiyah al-Fazari informed us, from Ata ibn Ajlan, from Ikrimah ibn Khalid al-Makhzumi, from Abu Hurairah, who said: The Messenger of Allah said: Every divorce is valid except the divorce of a mentally incapacitated person whose reason is overcome. Abu Isa said: We know this hadith as traced back to the Prophet only through Ata ibn Ajlan, who is weak and whose reports are rejected. Scholars among the Companions of the Prophet and others act on this: the divorce of a mentally incapacitated person whose reason is overcome is not valid, unless he has periods of clarity and divorces during one of them.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source distinguishes a person whose reason is overcome from someone who has lucid intervals; it states that a divorce during a lucid interval is valid.