Abu al-Sahba said to Ibn Abbas (RA) : Enlighten us with your information whether the three divorces (pronounced at one and the same time) were not treated as one during the lifetime of Allahs Messenger ﷺ and Abu Bakr. He said: It was in fact so, but when during the caliphate of Umar (RA) people began to pronounce divorce frequently, he allowed them to do so (to treat pronouncements of three divorces in a single breath as one).