Age of Hazrat Ayesha at the time of marriage [Split discussion]

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No doubts, Hazrat Ayesha was one of the beloved wifes of the Prophet (pbuh). However when we study Sahah Sittah and the books on Aqaid of Islam we find out that Hazarat Khadija was the most beloved wife of Rasulullah (pbuh)

The Most Beloved Wife:

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In Sahih Bukhari Hadith: 5.166 Ayesha (ra) herself narrates:

"I did not feel jealous of any of the wives of the Prophet as much as I did of Khadija though I did not see her, but the Prophet used to mention her very often, and whenever he slaughtered a sheep, he would cut its parts and send them to the women friends of Khadija. When I sometimes said to him, “(You treat Khadija in such a way) as if there is no woman on earth except Khadija,” he would say, “Khadija was such-and-such, and from her I had children.”

Mullah 'Ali Qari’s Sharh Fiqh Akbar (Book of aqaid) . On page 143 he cites the following tradition from Tirmidhi:

Ibne Abbas narrates that he heard Rasulullah (pbuh) “There shall be four Leaders of Women in Paradise, Maryum daughter of Imran, Fatima daughter of Muhammad, Khadija daughter of Khuwaylid and Asiya wife of Pharoah”

Rasulullah (pbuh) had also said: “The most excellent of the women of all worlds whom Allah chose over all women are: Asiya the wife of Pharaoh, Mary the daughter of Imran, Khadija the daughter of Khuwaylid, and Fatimah the daughter of Muhammad”

Please also check:

Sunan al-Tirmidhi, v5, p702

al-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, p157, (who said this tradition is authentic based on the criteria of two Shaikhs (al-Bukhari and Muslim);

Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, v3, p135
Hilayat al Awliya, by Abu Nu’aym, v2, p344
al-Isti’ab, by Ibn Abd al-Barr, v4, p377

In Yanabi al Mawaddah Part 1-3 (Combined) page 203, Chapter 55 “Fadail Khadijathul Kubra and Fatima Zahra” Shaykh Sulayman Qundoozi cites this reference from Mawaddatul al Qurba:

“Ikrima narrates that Rasulullah (pbuh) drew four lines into the ground and then asked ‘What is this?’ Those present replied ‘Allah and his Rasul know best’. He (pbuh) replied 'Of the women in Paradise the most superior are ** Khadija**, Fatima, Maryam and Asiya”.

The Most Beloved Person In The Eyes Of Rasulullah (pbuh):

When seeking to identify the most beloved in the eyes of Rasulullah (pbuh) one need to look no further than the Qur’an. Allah (swt) states the duty that has been placed on the Muslims:

Say: “No reward do I ask of you for this except the love of those near of kin.” (42:23).

Jalaladin Suyuti in Tafsir Durre Manthur under the commentary of this verse records the following:

Abdullah ibne Abbas narrates ‘When this verse descended the people asked who are these close relatives whose love had been made compulsory?’ Rasulullah said they are ‘Ali, Fatima, Hasan and Husayn’.

Other leading lights of Ahl’ul Sunnah have also conformed that this verse came down in respect of these four individuals:

Hilayat al Awliya page 201 Volume 3
Mustadrak al Hakim Volume 3 page 172
Sawaiq al Muhriqa page 101
Usdul Ghaba page 367 Volume 5
Kanz al-`ummal page 217 Volume 1

Clearly these four individuals are the most beloved to Rasulullah (pbuh) to the extent that Allah (swt) has declared love towards them as the only wage required by Rasulullah (pbuh), for providing the ummah with Allah’s message - Islam. Therefore, their love is a part of the Deen. If Hadhrath Ayesha was indeed the most beloved then why has Allah (swt) not stipulated love towards her as a duty upon the Muslims in the same way He (swt) has for Imams Ali , Imam Hasan , Imam Husayn and Sayyida Fatima?

Hadhrath Ayesha herself told Jami bin Umair who the most beloved to Rasulullah (pbuh) were.
He narrates: 'I accompanied my aunt and approached Hadhrath Ayesha and asked her ‘Who was the dearest among the people to Rasulullah?’ she replied ‘Fatima’. I then asked 'And amongst men? She replied ‘Her husband’.

Mishkath al Masabih Volume 3 page 257 (Urdu translation Fareed Bookstall Publishers, Lahore):

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*Originally posted by Sheraz CT: *
^ thats the fact..Prophet (pbuh) did not marry a single woman while He was married to Bibi Khadija (a.s) ..that says it all
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Yeah, True!!

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** zer01 ** that quote u posted of lajawab is wrong!! hazrat aisha sadeeqa :razi2: weren’t 9 @ the time of marriage>>>>>> read this>>>

  • Rasulullah :saw: married Hadhrat Aaisha :razi2:
    when she was 6 years of age. Hadhrat Aaisha :razi2:
    began staying with Rasulullah :saw: when she was nine years old.

(Bukhari; Chapter of Nikah)

and Allah Ta’ala Knows Best *

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You have’nt read what I posted above. Have you?? Please read again.
And if you are still confused what I posted above then its about ** The Most Beloved Wife Of Rasulallah (pbuh&hf)**

And secondly I believe that brother mAd_ScIeNtIsT posted an excellent article in the other post. Bet, you havent read that too.Click here](http://www.gupistan.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=2182016#post2182016) to read what he posted.

Off topic: too busy surfing bollywood sites to read the posts?? heh?? :stuck_out_tongue:

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^^ no matey i know this a seperate thread bu the quotation u copy and pasted was wrong so i corrected it according to my knowledge.

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i don’t understand the point behind all these discussions.

what difference does it makes to us? will this save us in qiyammat?

wife and daughter Mohammed :saw: are all our mothers and nobody dare to speak on their mothers.

plz plz try to understand v r not send to discuss on these issues. v will be asked for what v did in our alloted time.

may v all be guided.

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very good and valid point…jazakallah

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Re: Age of Hazrat Ayesha at the time of marriage [Split discussion]

**Madam Aishah, a Study of her age at the time of her marriage with Prophet Muhammad

Introduction:
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Aishah was a great Muslim lady, the daughter of the Prophet’s closest companion Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafah, better known to us as Abu Bakr, and his second wife, Umm Ruman. She was the ‘second beloved’ of the Prophet, the joy of the last years of his life. She was so famous that it seems quite extraordinary that some of the best-known facts about her should be challenged. This, however, is what this pamphlet proposes to do.

As a writer, I have been obliged to come to terms with two unfortunate but apparently unshakeable facts of life; the first is that no matter how hard one tries, or pays attention to the work one is doing, it is impossible to avoid slips in one’s work creeping in – through tiredness, momentary lack of concentration, interruptions, mind too full of racing thoughts, etc. Once the slip is in, it may lie there unnoticed, even by the original author, through many proof-readings. The second fact of life is that once things have been written down and appeared in public, they get repeated and copied by others, ad infinitum – often without question, and usually without consulting the original sources to check accuracy.

In this concise booklet, we consider what may possibly be the most serious piece of mis-information in the whole of Muslim history – the long-unchallenged notion that the Prophet’s third wife Aishah, the daughter of his dear friend Abu Bakr, was only six when she accepted nikah with the Prophet, that she married him physically when she was around nine years old, and was around eighteen when he died. One can find these ‘facts’ quoted again and again; moreover, they appear to be based on the most trustworthy of authorities – the hadith collections of Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, an-Nisa’i and Ibn-e-Majah.

However, there are many points to consider. Firstly, all of these authorities seem to have based their conclusions solely on the work of Aishah’s relative, the historian Hisham ibn Urwah, the grandson of Aishah’s sister Asma. One might think, therefore, that they were extremely accurate. However, Hisham’s accuracy in other matters was challenged. The matters pertaining to Aishah were supposedly obtained from Hisham’s father, but apparently these particular hadiths were offered only in Iraq and were unknown to the people of Madinah, and must necessarily, therefore, be regarded as not entirely trustworthy. (The reasons are given in the booklet).

In order to help the reader form his or her own judgment, certain fixed dates and terms should be placed before them.

  • The birth of the Prophet was in 570 CE.
  • His Call to the Prophethood occurred in 610 CE.
  • The year his wife Khadijah died was 619 CE.
  • The most likely year of his nikah to Aishah was 620 CE.
  • The Hijrah to Madinah took place in 622 CE.
  • The Prophet’s full marriage to Aishah was in 2 AH/623-4 CE.
  • The Prophet died in 10 AH/632 CE.
  • Most authorities agree that Aishah died in 50 AH/672 CE.

The conclusions formed about the dates and age of Aishah rest on three separate theories. The first, and most widely accepted throughout the Muslim world, is that she was born in the fourth year of the Prophethood (ie 614 CE). This is based on one reference in Ibn Sa’d’s work, which seems to be contradicted by many of his later statements. If this was true, it would mean she was indeed five when Khadijah died, six when her nikah was performed, nine in the year of her full marriage, and eighteen when the Prophet died. However, it would also mean that if she did die in 672 CE she was only fifty-eight, and not sixty-seven as most authorities report.

The second theory is that she was born some four years before the Prophethood, in 605-6 CE. This would mean she was 4/5 when he was called to his mission, 14/15 when Khadijah died, 15/16 at her nikah, 19 in the year of her full marriage, and 27/28 when he died. She would have indeed been sixty-seven when she died in 50 AH. (Sometimes one has to be flexible with the years, because people tend to ‘round things up’ and take into account the number of months in any year as a complete year – ie, if someone was sixteen years and eight months old, people might well say she was nearly seventeen.)

The third theory is that she was five years younger than Fatimah, who was said to have been born five years before the Prophet’s call, therefore making the year of Aishah’s birth in that very year, 610. If this was true, she would have been 9 when Khadijah died, 10 at her nikah, 12 in the year of Hijrah, 14 when she married him, 22 when he died, and 62 when she died.

The argument based on the age of Fatimah has a further complication, however, since her own dates are disputed. Isaba, for example, agreed that she was born in 605 since when she married Ali in 625 she was 20. Yet she was said to have been 29 when the Prophet (and she herself) died in the year 632 – which pushes her birth year back to 603.

The concept of nikah of a six-year-old Aishah has given ammunition to the enemies of Islam – which cannot be helped if it is true. However, so many given facts make this suggestion seem debatable.

My own personal conclusion from it all would be that Aishah was born in 605-6, and that Ibn Sa’d had been cursed by a glaring example of writer’s slip which went unnoticed and got repeated ad infinitum by those who used him as a primary source. The slip, I believe, was that he stated that Aishah was born in the fourth year of the Prophethood, when what he actually meant was that she was born four years before the Prophethood.

This makes all the points raised by the author in this booklet completely sensible, and of prime importance to our own generation of Islamic scholars.

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
29 September 1996
http // www ilovezakirnaik com / madamayeshah / introduction htm

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Re: Age of Hazrat Ayesha at the time of marriage [Split discussion]

I don't understand the point of this discussion apart from wasting time which could be utilised in Read Quran, Hadith or Book fo Seerah.

I personally think we should not open these kind of topics as I have noticed from time to time none-muslims do come in to these topics adnquestion all sorts of things which polloute the mind of younger generations.

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"My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level." --Michael H. Hart, THE 100: A RANKING OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSONS IN HISTORY, New York: Hart Publishing Company, Inc., 1978, p. 33.