Is it true that when Muhammad was over 50 years old he consummated a marriage with a 9 year old girl.?

Answer 1

Yes, but I am sure this is a "cultural thing" American pigs cannot understand or George Bush was behind it somehow.

Answer 2

Reports regarding Aisha's age were recorded during the Abbasid caliphate when Aisha's youth might be deliberately emphasized by scholars to reject Shi'a claims for the descendants of Ali ibn Abi Talib.[20]
Most of the narratives regarding Aisha's age 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 Muhammad 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.[21] Another book on the narrators of the traditions of Muhammad reports that when he was old, Hisham's memory suffered quite badly.[22]

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".[32] The 54th Surah of the Qur'an was revealed nine years before Hijrah.[33] 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.[34][35] Asma is reported to die in the 73 AH, when she was 100 years old.[36][37] Now, obviously if Asma was 100 years old in the 73 AH, she should have been 27 or 28 years old at the time of Migration to Medina (1 AH). If Asma was 27 or 28 years old at that time, Aisha should have been 17 or 18 years old at the same time. Thus, Aisha - if she got married in 1 AH or 2 AH - was between 18 to 20 years old at the time of her marriage

What the missionaries try to do is quote the hadith and not know its language. This hadith is like the hadith of Laylat al-Qadr in which 1 means 21 and 3 means 23 and 5 means 25 etc. If you don't know historical context or the science of Hadith you shouldn't attempt to seem like you know something about Islam.

Answer 3

yes but i fail to see the point of the question
at the time most people were dead at 50
and as soon as a girl had her first period and so was able to have baby she would have sex with her husband
women were married really early at the time
nowdays because of the evolution of our society this kind of things are considered as bad/horrible but we do not have the same life or culture

Answer 4

There are some Muslim Scholars who refute this claim that the Prophet (Peace be Upon Him) married Aisha (RA) at an older age. Possibly when she was around 14 or 16. But, yes according to today's standards it seems like a very young age to marry that age. But, I am not being rude but when Aisha's parents were the ones who married her to our Prophet, and that no Muslim or even pagan objected to the marriage because it was widely practiced. And even until today in 3rd world countries (Muslims and non-Muslims), little girls as young as 9 or 10 do get married. The first 2 links shows proof: Anyway, the reason no one objected was to the Prophet's marriage was:

People used to have very short life-spans in Arabia. They used to live between 40 to 60 years maximum. So it was only normal and natural for girls to be married off at ages 9 or 10 or similar.

Marriage for young girls was widely practiced among Arabs back then, and even today in many third-world non-Muslim and Muslim countries.

Child brides as young as 8 (eight) were common among the Byzantine emperors and nobility! (Check 3rd link)

Not only was it a custom in the Arab society to Engage/Marry a young girl it was also common in the Jewish society. The case of Mary the mother of Jesus comes to mind, in non biblical sources she was between 11-14 years old when she conceived Jesus. Mary had already been "BETROTHED" to Joseph before conceiving Jesus. Joseph was a much older man. therefore Mary was younger than 11-14 years of age when she was "BETHROED" to Joseph. We Muslims would never call Joseph a Child Molester, nor would we refer to the "Holy Ghost" of the Bible, that "Impregnated" Mary as a "Rapist" or "Adulterer".

According to the Priest of Saint Mary's Catholic Church: "Mary was approximately 14 years old when she got pregnant with Jesus. Joseph, Mary's Husband is believed to be around 36. Mary was only 13 when she married Joseph. When she first was arranged with Joseph she was between 7 to 9 years old."

According to the "Oxford Dictionary Bible" commentary, Mary (peace be upon her) was was 12 years old when she became impregnated.

So, it was alright for men to marry girls at young ages.

Answer 5

she was only 6! A virgin in Islam is any 6 year old girl who can run faster than her uncle!

Answer 6

Yes he had many wives ( and slave wives since many were gotten though military conquest)

Answer 7

J T is such a nerd!! By the sounds of it, he could have done so!!

Sad, hey!!

Answer 8

Yes but apparently it was ok in that day and age.
Allah didnt know yet it was wrong but he does now :)

Answer 9

Seeing other's fault is humane

Seeing your own faults is Spirituality??

Who are you?

Answer 10

Yeah. But she looked like she was 12.