Was Aisha 9 or 19 when she married?

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mohamedan

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salam warahmatullah! this bro shahrukh! dear remember dat mohamed s.a.w. never did a thing which he himself said not to do! i don remember da actual words but m sure dat prophet instructed us not to marry a girl who has not touched the puberty! so he could do a thig wich he forbade! and the problem wid the age of mother ayesha anf confusion has been promulgated by rawafiz! in order to defame the personality of prophet! and she definitely aged 19 wen she got married with prophet! there is a word in hadith 'ashara' wich was removed in many of hadith compilation under a great conpiracy of islam by anti islamic elements! insha Allah i will try to provide the proper reference shortly! never confuse abt anything wich has got clear instructions! at dis tym i can only give u this answer! may Allah guide us to right path!
 

alf2

Islam is a way of life
I have only been told she was 9. I even read in a small book about her that she played with Dolls after being married to Muhammad (SAW)
 

Tabassum07

Smile for Allah
:salam2:

Yes, I was sure she was 9 as well - why would a 19 year old girl play with dolls? I'd always read that by the time RasulAllah (SAW) died, she was 18 years old.
 

thariq2005

Praise be to Allah!
For references (if you can read Arabic) confirming that Lady `Aa'isha, may God have been pleased with her, was 19 when she married the Prophet (PBUH), see this article.

And I want to ask you... who from the classical scholars held the view that `Aa'ishah radiAllaahu `anhaa was 19 when she married the Prophet :saw2:? Please provide references
 

Aapa

Mirajmom
Assalaam walaikum,

Why is this such an obstacle in faith. Does it really matter. The facts are the Prophet accepted her as his wife. He loved her. She was one of the greatest scholars of Islam.
The question that should be asked is why am I so concerned about the age of one of the Mothers of the Believers.
Trust me...I think we have deeper issues to discuss regarding striving for heaven.
 

ovomer

salam from pakistan!
i dont think that this is such an important issue to discuss!!!
Allah swt will not ask us in the grave about it. we should not indulge ourselves in such matters as writers in the history did not tell us the truth.
so my request is to stop these topics and try to learn the faraidh in islam.
regards
 

BrotherInIslam7

La Illaha Illa Allah
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:salam2:

Our mother RadiAllahu Anha was 9 years old when she married the Prophet SallAllahu Alleihi Wa Sallama.

Incidentally this issue has been discussed in Sh Muhammad Salah's weekly fatwa show for this week. Skip to minute 15:30 to see the answer to this particular question.

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thariq2005

Praise be to Allah!
I just did! See a list of them in the link in my post.

Akhee... listing a few books does not mean much. You don't really expect people to go search this issue up in a mighty book like Siyar an-Nubala do you?

Could you quote us Imaam adh-Dhahabi or Ibn Hajar or Ibn Qutaybah or anyone else from the past having said "`Aa'ishah was 19 years old WHEN THE PROPHET :saw2: CONSUMMATED THE MARRIAGE WITH HER". I don't want secondary, indirect sources/statements when there are clear narrations through more than one chain which is a direct testimony from `Aa'ishah regarding her own age when the Prophet :saw2: consummated marriage with her.

I am not going to be apologetic about the age of consummation of my mother, the mother of the believers. There is nothing to compromise here and to be apologetic about, and the scholars of the past and present have accepted the fact that our Mother, radiyAllaahu `anhaa was 9 when her marriage was consummated.

I find it ironic seeing such things coming from you, when on one thread you argue against something, saying there is no authentic hadeeth or ayah from the Qur'aan yet the scholars have agreed upon it. And on this thread your attitude seems to be that, the statements of a "few" scholars (which are not even direct and clear statements) are given preference over "AUTHENTIC" narrations. So do we pick and choose that which fits into the 21st Century?

Also on that point I would like to ask, did the Prophet :saw2: marry `Aa'ishah when she was 6 or 16 then? As the narrations mention that he :saw2: married her when she was 6 and consummated the marriage when she was 9. So according to "You", did he :saw2: marry her when she was 6 (or 16) and consummate the marriage when she was 19?
 

hayat84

I'm not what you believe
:salam2:
I read on a thread on tti that Aisha was only 6 years old,when she got married,and that she was 9 years old,when she spent her first night of marriage with her husband.I don't know how true could it be,maybe it was a mistake of writing
 

Parvaiz

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Looked up in the sahi bukhari and found the following,there are other in sahi bukhari aswell but i guess this will be sufficient
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 234:

Narrated Aisha:

The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Allright, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, "Best wishes and Allah's Blessing and a good luck." Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah's Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age.


Volume 5, Book 58, Number 235:

Narrated 'Aisha:

That the Prophet said to her, "You have been shown to me twice in my dream. I saw you pictured on a piece of silk and some-one said (to me). 'This is your wife.' When I uncovered the picture, I saw that it was yours. I said, 'If this is from Allah, it will be done."


Volume 5, Book 58, Number 236:

Narrated Hisham's father:

Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he married 'Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old.
 

al-fajr

...ism..schism
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Assalaam walaikum,

Why is this such an obstacle in faith. Does it really matter. The facts are the Prophet accepted her as his wife. He loved her. She was one of the greatest scholars of Islam.
The question that should be asked is why am I so concerned about the age of one of the Mothers of the Believers.
Trust me...I think we have deeper issues to discuss regarding striving for heaven.

Wa-alaikum salaam

I agree with you here.

Its only the non-muslims who have made this an issue with the objective of causing harm to Islaam and placing doubts in the hearts of Muslims. It should have absolutely no bearing on our Imaan and our trust in Allaah and His Messenger should be such that this topic is a non-issue.

Ayman - I'm assuming that blog you keep linking to is your own? Correct me if I am wrong.
 

islaminside17

love for ALLAH
:salam2:

Yes, I was sure she was 9 as well - why would a 19 year old girl play with dolls? I'd always read that by the time RasulAllah (SAW) died, she was 18 years old.

assalam-o-alaikum i also read in many books hazrat ayesha r.a was 9 years old when she r.a married with our beloved prophet hazrat MUHAMMAD p.b.u.h .ALLAH swt know best. and non muslim created this issue according to me this is not a big issue for belivers:shymuslima1:wasalam
 

Kakorot

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Hi this is one thing which i find hard to understand about Aisha

I read that when the Prophet peace be upon him died, A'isha r.a was only 18. So how could he marry her when she was 19?

And does it really matter? The non-Muslims at the time of the Prophet pbuh had no problem with it. It's only the non-Muslims these days that make a big deal about it to make people have bad impressions of the Prophet sal Allaahu 'alayhi wa sallaam, claiming astaghfirullaah that he was a 'child molester'.
 

Asja

Pearl of Islaam
Assalamu allaicum wa raahmatullah wa barkatuhu

Dear brothers and sisters I would like to kindly ask you that you please do not share your opinions without explination, because Islaam and Allah is teaching us that we should learn Islaam with understanding.We can not say only " It is not aloweed to drink alchol" without further explination why this ruling is like that, because Allah gave us the reason to think and with reason to understand. I belive that Aisha r.a. was 9 when she got married for our Prophet mohammed sallahu alayha wa salam,and that she had happy life with him, but I also belive that she needed to look older for marriage life.:shymuslima1: .

And Allah knows the best.

:wasalam:
 

al-fajr

...ism..schism
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And does it really matter? The non-Muslims at the time of the Prophet pbuh had no problem with it. It's only the non-Muslims these days that make a big deal about it to make people have bad impressions of the Prophet sal Allaahu 'alayhi wa sallaam, claiming astaghfirullaah that he was a 'child molester'.

I assure you sis no one in this thread wasn't aware of what exactly the accusations of the non-muslims are against Rasulullaah salAllaahu alayhi wasallam. There was no need to post it and state the obvious.

When something is so vulgar and untrue, never dignify it with making mention of it. Example of this can be found in the Sunnah during the slander of 'Aishah radiAllaahu anha. Rasulullaah salAllaahu alayhi wa sallam never uttered exactly what the accusations against her were with his own tongue, he just waited patiently for the truth to become clear. When he eventually addressed the people about it he simply stated he was aware of that which they had been speaking. Thats powerful.

I think thats an absolutely beautiful Sunnah.

Wa-salaam
 

saifkhan

abd-Allah
salam alaikum

the most amazing thing is: Mother a'isha , radhi Allahu anha didn't have any prob, but the whole world is after that and making it their problem

Muslims ans non-Muslim both are after this issue, subhan Allah

and another amazing thing: this is the first time I'm listening that: she was 19!!
there was a dispute of 6 and 9, sitta wa tisa', subhan Allah now new numbers are coming!

she was engaged at six and got married at nine.
before his engagement with prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam, she was engaged to another guy, but he refused to take her, as she became Muslim.

seems like, we muslims are afraid of others people and now we are hiding the truth?

what is a big deal here?
dont we have example urrently in this world?

Lina Medina (born September 27, 1933, in Ticrapo, Huancavelica Region, Peru) is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days. She now lives in Lima, Peru. still alive.
Medina's son weighed 2.7 kg (6.0 lb; 0.43 st) at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. Gerardo was raised believing that Medina was his sister, but found out at the age of 10 that she was his mother. He grew up healthy but died in 1979 at the age of 40 of a bone marrow disease.


subhan Allah
but not the not yet muslims, we muslims even look it as a big issue.


we have a lot more things to do, we have a lot responsibilities towards our brothersin faith and humanity.

may Allah save us from these type of things

let us use our time in more productive works
JazakAllah khair

Allah knows the best
wassalam
 

Kakorot

Junior Member
I assure you sis no one in this thread wasn't aware of what exactly the accusations of the non-muslims are against Rasulullaah salAllaahu alayhi wasallam. There was no need to post it and state the obvious.

When something is so vulgar and untrue, never dignify it with making mention of it. Example of this can be found in the Sunnah during the slander of 'Aishah radiAllaahu anha. Rasulullaah salAllaahu alayhi wa sallam never uttered exactly what the accusations against her were with his own tongue, he just waited patiently for the truth to become clear. When he eventually addressed the people about it he simply stated he was aware of that which they had been speaking. Thats powerful.

I think thats an absolutely beautiful Sunnah.

Wa-salaam

You're right. Thanks for telling me.
 
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