I want to know what was the age of Beebee Ayesha (RA) at the time she got married to Hazrat Muhammad :saw:?
She was 9 years old at the time of the marriage to the Holy Prophet :saw: and his most beloved wife, for her knowledge and wisdom surpassed all the wives of the Prophet :saw:…
Are you sure? And isnt this too tender an age for a girl to get married?
Yes…Quite sure. Is it possible for a virgin to conceive a child? Yet Bibi Mariam :as: had Hazrat Eesa :as:, didn’t she?
The marriage between the Prophet :saw: and Bibi Ayesha was foretold by Hazrat Jibraeel :as: just as Hazrat Jibraeel :as: foretold the coming of Eesa (as) to Bibi Mariam. This Marriage between a 9 year old girl and a Prophet was ordained by Allah :swt:…If Allah :swt: can ordain a virgin to conceive a child, he can ordain a 9 year old girl to be the the wife of grown man…
Khuda na khwasta mein yeh naheen kah raha ke this marriage was not ordained by Allah Tua’aala. Isnt marrying a 9 year old girl becomes Sunnah then?
One of my friend and I were discussing this and he was telling that the most marriages in which old men marry young girls cite this example and justify their action in view of this. I am a bit perplexed on that.
Well they are wrong. In the Holy Prophet :saw:'s case, Bibi Ayesha was shown to him in a dream by Hazrat Jibraeel :as:.
Pre-pubescent marriages are in no way condoned in Islam either in the Quran or the Sunnah, and if they take the example of the Holy Prophet :saw: as their Sunnah, then they should be able to split the moon and go on Mairaaj :nauzubillah:…This is a Prophet we are talking about here and Allah :swt: in His Wisdom had decreed that this marriage take place…
And according to my knowledge, this was the only marriage that the Holy Prophet :saw: did in which Allah :swt: and Hazrat Jibraeel (as) were involved…It was a special marriage, not like his other marriages and this was a special man and woman, not like any one of us…
And as far as marrying is concerned, why don’t they marry a widowed and divorced lady? Bibi Ayesha (ra) was the only virgin wife of the Prophet (saw) married, all his other wives were either divorced or widowed…But desis and Muslims being what they are, they take this one solitary example to justify their actions…
I came across this article, suggesting Bibi Ayesha (ra) was more likely 15 or 16 at time of marriage
http://www.iiie.net/Articles/AyeshasAge.html
More details here … http://www.iiie.net/Articles/Ayesha.html
Thank you so much maddy. I am also of the view that Bibi Ayesha ought to be 15-16 at the time of her marriage with Huzoor Pak. Jazak-Allah for ur help :flower1:
Lajawab bhai :k:
I heard that the Nikaah was done earlier and they waited until she had reached puberty (9 yrs old) before she went to live with the Prophet (sallallaho alayhe wassallam).
MS, The age of Bibi Ayesha 
has been a contested issue between the scholars…Some claim it to be 9, some 12 and some 17 with the consummation taking place at 19…
The article you provided is very detailed and all my sources (books and scholars) point to the fact that her marriage took place when she was 9, however the points in your post are just too detailed to be contested for now…
I’ll look around and see if more information can be found about her age…
This is one issue which the Kuffar always tries to slap the Muslim in the face with, however we must not be apologists and look for the first instance of explainable material we come across and distort the truth…
However the points in your posts are unarguably the most detailed I have yet seen…
**Praise be to Allaah.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) married ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) after he married Sawdah bint Zam’ah (may Allaah be pleased with her). She – ‘Aa’ishah – was the only virgin whom he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) married. And he consummated the marriage with her when she was nine years old.
Among her virtues was the fact that the Revelation did not descend when he under one cover with any of his wives other than her. She was one of the dearest of all people to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and news of her innocence was revealed from above the seven heavens. She was one of the most knowledgeable of his wives, and one of the most knowledgeable women of the ummah as a whole. The senior companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to refer to her opinion and consult her.
With regard to the story of her marriage, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) had grieved over the death of the Mother of the Believers Khadeejah, who had supported him and stood by his side, and he called the year in which she died The Year of Sorrow. Then he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) married Sawdah, who was an older woman and was not very beautiful; rather he married her to console her after her husband had died and she stayed among mushrik people. Four years later the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) married ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her), and he was over fifty. Perhaps the reasons for the marriage were as follows:
1 – He saw a dream about marrying her. It is proven in al-Bukhaari from the hadeeth of ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said to her: “You were shown to me twice in a dream. I saw that you were wrapped in a piece of silk, and it was said, ‘This is your wife.’ I uncovered her and saw that it was you. I said, ‘If this is from Allaah then it will come to pass.’” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, no. 3682). As to whether this is a prophetic vision as it appears to be, or a regular dream that may be subject to interpretation, there was a difference of opinion among the scholars, as mentioned by al-Haafiz in Fath al-Baari, 9/181.
2 – The characteristics of intelligence and smartness that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) had noticed in ‘Aa’ishah even as a small child, so he wanted to marry her so that she would be more able than others to transmit reports of what he did and said. In fact, as stated above, she was a reference point for the Sahaabah (may Allaah be pleased with them) with regard to their affairs and rulings.
3 – The love of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) for her father Abu Bakr (may Allaah be pleased with him), and the persecution that Abu Bakr (may Allaah be pleased with him) had suffered for the sake of the call of truth, which he bore with patience. He was the strongest of people in faith and the most sincere in certain faith, after the Prophets.
It may be noted that among his wives were those who were young and old, the daughter of his sworn enemy, the daughter of his closest friend. One of them occupied herself with raising orphans, another distinguished herself from others by fasting and praying qiyaam a great deal… They represented all kinds of people, through whom the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was able to set out a way for the Muslims showing how to deal properly with all kinds of people. [See al-Seerah al-Nabawiyyah fi Daw’ al-Masaadir al-Asliyyah, p. 711].
With regard to the issue of her being young and your being confused about that, you should note that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) grew up in a hot country, the Arabian Peninsula. Usually in hot countries adolescence comes early and people marry early. This is how the people of Arabia were until recently. Moreover, women vary greatly in their development and their physical readiness for marriage.
If you think – may Allaah guide you – that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) did not marry any virgin other than ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her), and that all his other wives had been previously married, this will refute the notion spread by many hostile sources, that the basic motive behind the Prophet’s marriages was physical desire and enjoyment of women, because if that was his intention he would have chosen only those who were virgins and beautiful etc.
Such slanders against the Prophet of Mercy (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) by kaafirs and others of their ilk, are indicative of their inability to find fault with the law and religion that he brought from Allaah, so they try to find ways to criticize Islam with regard to issues that are not related to sharee’ah.
And Allaah is the Source of strength. May Allaah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family and companions.
For more information see Zaad al-Ma’aad, 1/106.
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innit!
Who cares for what they think?
Only Muslims who have adopted the Kafir way of thinking have an apologetic attitude…
Never distort the truth to follow your own whims and desires or even worse the whims, desires and way of thinking of the Kufaar.
what is minimum age for muslim girls to marry according to quran?
inmany countriies youcan land in jail for child endangerment if you
marry children. but in some places like rajasthan child marrigaes
are still taking place.
Ruling on child marriage
The decision by the Peshawar High Court on Wednesday annulling the marriage of an under-age girl and allowing her, now a major, to dissolve the nikah must be welcomed as a step in the right direction both legally and socially. The rights of the minor girl in question were compromised in the name of the tribal custom of swara, which allows giving a girl in marriage to one’s adversary to settle a feud in accordance with the ruling of a jirga
^ 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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Well they are wrong. In the Holy Prophet 's case, Bibi Ayesha was shown to him in a dream by Hazrat Jibraeel .
Pre-pubescent marriages are in no way condoned in Islam either in the Quran or the Sunnah, and if they take the example of the Holy Prophet as their Sunnah
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is it? i thought all marriages are made in heaven?
besides, all are created equal, if one man gets sanction from god to marry an underaged, all men are entitled!!
If one man has right to implement his dream, however ridicules it is, than all men are allowed to marry who so ever they dream of!!
why would god make different laws for different ppl?
And if God's words are unchallageable, the rule stays for all!! right?
like he says, a man can marry upto four wives, but holds nothing against his own beloved messenger, who breaks this law and marries eleven times, one of which was his own daughter in law.
Allah sents message, saying sex outside the marriage is forbidden...his own messeger, goes ahead and fathers a child-Ibrahim, outside marriage from a christian-Maria, servant of one of his wives-Hafza!!
interesting!!
- Rasulullah :saw: married Hadhrat Aaisha
when she was 6 years of age. Hadhrat Aaisha
began staying with Rasulullah :saw: when she was nine years old.
(Bukhari; Chapter of Nikah)
and Allah Ta’ala Knows Best *
rvikz, the minimum age for a girl 2 get married in Islam is 14.
explains it all
Re: Age of Hazrat Ayesha at the time of marriage.
**Madam Aishah, a Study of her age at the time of her marriage with Prophet Muhammad
Introduction:
**
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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