Sister, in total if iam not wrong i should say he said talaaq 4 times ... he has crossed limits. Since he mocked the ayath of Allah(SAT)
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 229: A divorce is only permissible twice: after that the parties should either hold together on equitable terms or separate with kindness.
The correct way to pronounce divorce in Islam, as taught in the Holy Quran, is tht a prson gives one-divorce to his wife and they ‘stay-away’ from each other fr three menses periods. If before the three menses periods are over, the husband and the wife decide to live together , then the divorce is cancelled and they remain as a married couple.
But if the three menses period duration passes, and the couple do not come together, then the husband and wife are divorced. If they want to re-marry after this period, a new ‘nikaah’ needs to be done for them to be husband and wife again..... .but the husband has used up one of his three divorce rights, n has only two more divorce rights left in this marriage.
The divorce and re-marriage can only be done twice....and da third time the husband pronounces da divorce, then it will be considered a final and irrevocable divorce and the couple cannot remarry; unless da woman marries someone else, and that husband divorces her or dies.
Thus, in Islam, one need not use all da three divorce pronunciations to divorce his wife..... Only one divorce pronunciation is enough to obtain divorce and it also leaves the option of the couple being re-married again in the future, if they change their minds.
Al-Muwatta Hadith 29.4
Yahya related from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Marwan ibn al-Hakam decided that if someone made three pronouncements of divorce, he had divorced his wife irrevocably.
Al-Muwatta Hadith 29.1 The 'Irrevocable' Divorce.
Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that a man said to Abdullah ibn Abbas (r.a.), "I have divorced my wife by saying ‘I divorce you’ a hundred times. What do you think my situation is?" Ibn Abbas (r.a.) said to him, "She was divorced from you by three pronouncements, and by the ninety-seven, you have mocked the ayat of Allah."
But if a person declares all da three divorce pronunciations in one sitting, da opinion of almost all the scholars and the Shariah Courts in almost all the Islamic countries worldwide, is tht it will be counted as a final n irrevocable divorce. Thereafter, da couple cannot remarry, unless the woman marries someone else and tht husband dies, or if by his own free will, divorces her.