Abu Sahba' said toIbn 'Abbas (Allaah be pleased with them): Do you know that three (divorces) were treated as one during the lifetime of Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam), and that of Abu Bakr, and during three (years) of the caliphate of Umar (Allaah be pleased with him)? Ibn Abbas (Allaah be pleased with them) said: Yes.