50 year old men marrying 10 year old girls

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Not this again, we recently had thread and detail discussion on consummating marriage with young women given that it meets Islamic conditions–the girl is a women (she has reached puberty) and it does not physically or physiologically harms her. What Prophet (Peace and blessing be upon him) did was according to the law of nature and Islamic teachings. There was a great wisdom behind this marriage; thus, scholar of Islam have consluded that such marriages should only take place if there is need for it and their is enough wisdom behind it. Just becuase it is allowed in Islam does not mean it is encouraged or mandatory or every person can do it. In fact some of the early and later scholars have discouraged such marriages. Enough said

A weak argument from Muslims in defence to this attack

1- it was part of the Arab culture

Counter Argument: However, Islam and Sunnah of the Prophet (Peace be upon him) is for all people and all kinds of culture till day of Judgement and Qur’an allows such marriages. Just b/c it was their culture does not it mean it is acceptable.

I say: when did practices of Arabs and their cultures become part of Islam? Prophet (Peace be upon him) did not do it b/c it was part of their culture or norm or it was considered moral, he did it b/c he followed the law of nature and teachings of Islam and Arabs were doing the same thing (following the absolute law of nature).

We, Muslims, do not need to to act “modern” in defence. Yes, the authentic ahadith say that He (Peace be upon him) married her (May Allah be pleased with her) when she was 7 and consummated the marriage when she was 9. Yes, still today it is permissible to marry a young women as long as there is enough wisdom behind it and marriage can only be consummated when the Islamic conditions are met.

Now as far concerning the misinterpreted and misleading facts to prove that she was older than nine, they have been debunked many times before.

@Mirch

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Some people claim the Bukari and Muslim hadith reporting Hazrat Aisha’s age are “weak” (I won’t call them weak hadits, in reality they are attack on our prophet pbuh.)

There is material from both these hadith writers and earlier Islamic histories suggesting Aisha must have been older than nine when married.

• Most of these narratives are reported only by Hisham ibn Urwa reporting on the authority of his father. All the narratives of this event have been reported through narrators from Iraq, where Hisham ibn Urwa is reported to have shifted after living in Madinah for seventy-one years. It is reported in one of the most well known books on the life and reliability of the narrators of the traditions ascribed to the Muhammad reports that Yaqub ibn Shaibah said, “narratives reported by Hisham are reliable except those that are reported through the people of Iraq”. It further states that Malik ibn Anas objected on those narratives of Hisham, which were reported through people of Iraq. Another book on the narrators of the traditions of the Muhammad reports that when he was old, Hisham’s memory suffered quite badly.

• According to the generally accepted tradition, Aisha was born about eight years before Hijrah. However, according to another narrative in Bukhari (Kitaab al-Tafseer) Aisha is reported to have said that at the time Surah Al-Qamar, the 54th chapter of the Qur’an , was revealed, “I was a young girl”. The 54th Surah of the Qur’an was revealed nine years before Hijrah. According to this tradition, Aisha had not only been born before the revelation of the referred Surah, but was actually a young girl, not even only an infant at that time. So if this age is assumed to be 7 to 14 years then her age at the time of marriage would be 14 to 21.

• According to almost all the historians, Asma the elder sister of Aisha, was ten years older than Aisha. It is reported in Taqreeb al-Tehzeeb as well as Al-Bidayah wa al-Nihayah that Asma died in the 73rd year after migration of Muhammad when she was 100 years old. Now, obviously if Asma was 100 years old in the 73rd year after Migration to Medina, she should have been 27 or 28 years old at the time of migration. If Asma was 27 or 28 years old at the time of hijrah, Aisha should have been 17 or 18 years old at that time. Thus, Aisha - if she got married in 1 AH (after Migration to Medina) or 2 AH - was between 18 to 20 years old at the time of her marriage.

• According to many Ahadith in Bukhari, it is believed Aisha participated in the battle of Badr and Uhud.Also in Bukhari (Kitabu’l-maghazi) Ibn `Umar states that the Prophet did not permit me to participate in Uhud, as at that time, I was 14 years old. But on the day of Khandaq, when I was 15 years old, the Prophet permitted my participation. So if it was not allowed to participate in Uhud for people younger than 15, then Aisha would be atleast 15 in those battles, making her age atleast 13 to 14 at the time of marriage.

• Tabaqat ibn Sa’d, 8:58; Ansab al-Ashraf, 1:410. Opinions are in disagreement concerning her marriage with Muhammad. Their marriage seems to have taken place either two of five years after the Migration (Usd al-ghaba, 5:501).

Download the attachment which has complete rebuttal to these claims: http://www.ahlalhdeeth.com/vbe/showthread.php?t=1095&page=4

There was another one by G.F. Haddad: http://www.mereislam.info/articles/G-F-Haddad_Aisha's-Age-at-the-Time-of-Her-Marriage_2005-11.pdf
http://www.mereislam.info/articles/G-F-Haddad_More-on-Aisha's-Age-at-the-Time-of-Her-Marriage_2004-12.pdf