Abu al-Khattab said: He breaks his oath if he intended that she should not disobey him, or if he is not someone who understands the technical reality of a command and prohibition, for when he is such, he only intends to negate disobedience. It is possible that she is divorced in any case, because a command for something is a prohibition against its opposite, and a prohibition against something is a command for its opposite, so she has disobeyed his command. If he said to her: "If you forbid me from benefiting my mother, you are divorced," and she said to him: "Do not give her anything from my wealth," he does not break his oath, because it is not permissible for her to give from her wealth, nor is it permissible to benefit from it, so this benefit is prohibited and his oath does not encompass it. It is also possible that he does break his oath, because it is a benefit and his wording is general, so the prohibited act is included in it.

Section: If he said to his wife: "If you go out to somewhere other than the bathhouse, you are divorced," and she went out to somewhere other than the bathhouse, she is divorced, whether she detoured to the bathhouse or did not. If she went out to the bathhouse and then detoured to somewhere else, the analogy of the school is that he breaks his oath, because the apparent meaning of this oath is the prohibition of anything other than the bathhouse, so wherever she went, he breaks his oath, just as if she had disobeyed his wording. It is also possible that he does not break his oath; this is the view of al-Shafi'i, because she did not do what he swore against, and his wording encompasses it. If she went out to the bathhouse and somewhere else, and combined them in her intention, there are two views. One is that he breaks his oath, because she went out to somewhere other than the bathhouse, and something else was added to it, so he breaks his oath due to what he swore against, just as if he swore not to speak to Zayd, and he spoke to Zayd and 'Amr. The second is that he does not break his oath, because she did not go out to somewhere other than the bathhouse, but rather the departure is shared. Al-Fadl ibn Ziyad narrated from Ahmad that he was asked regarding a man who swore by divorce that he would not leave Baghdad except for an excursion. He went out for an excursion, then proceeded to Mecca. He said: "An excursion does not go to Mecca." The apparent meaning of this is that he considered it a breach of oath, and the reasoning is what has preceded. He also spoke regarding a man who swore by divorce not to go to Armenia except with the permission of his wife. His wife said to him: "Go wherever...