Most of you don't know this...?

Question

Many of you would like to believe that Muhammad (pbuh) went after a 9 year old girl.
First, let's look at his other marriages. None of them were young except Ayesha. Clearly, it's not a habit of his to go after young girls.

Secondly, many of you don't know anything about Islam.
Many hadiths contradict the Quran and we have to know which is good or not.
If you take the time to read then you will find in the first place that Ayesha's age is nowhere mentioned in the Quran.
That number that everybody likes to quote comes from a hadith, which is not reliable.

I know many of you will shrug this off, but for those who are willing to listen then please do.

Look at this argument that Ayesha was older than 9:

http://www26.brinkster.com/sdolshah1/ayage.htm

Most narrations carry misstatements about the age of Hazrat ‘Aishah Siddiqah at the time of her marriage to the Holy Prophet, (peach and blessings of Allah be upon him). They place this marriage in the tenth year of the Call and state that Hazrat ‘Aishah was only 6 years old at that time. On proper sifting of the material facts, these statements turn out to be incorrect and it becomes evident that she, in fact, was about 19 or 20 years of age when she arrived in the house of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as his wife in 2 A.H.

http://www.islam-watch.org/SyedKamranMirza/MuhdIdealCharacter.htm

Then look at this site and compare the arguments.
Notice that the author said in "today's world he would be considered a pedophile"
Hmm, isn't it folly to put our defintion of that to different standards?
Back then so many men married young girls. It wasn't because they liked young girls, it was because many people didn't live for long lives.
Today, we don't need to marry young anymore.

Quran is from God and hadith are from men.
However, the hadith Sunnah is also included in the studies of Islam, because it describes the teachings of Muhammad (pbuh).
However, the Quran is the standard to which hadiths are compared to.

Answer 1

of course she was older then 9, she would have been about 19. this is like the 72 virgin thingy, a myth, not in Qur'an but spread and perpetuated by certain western media in a bid to cast Islam in a bad light.

Answer 2

Aisha was 9 lunar years old or 8 years 9 months old according to solar years when Muhammad slept with her. This is a fact demonstrated by a great number of hadiths. There is no controversy in that. There has never been until now that some of the Muslims have come in contact with western values and are ashamed to admit that their Prophet could commit such an indecency. They deny the facts and have made it a controversy. The majority of Muslims still have no problem with the young age of the Aisha and they ridicule these Modern day “moral relativists” who are twisting the truth to please the morality of the westerners.


Why would so many followers of Muhammad fabricate so many false hadithes about the age of Ayisha, which incidentally confirm each other? Can you still trust the other Hadith's ?

Answer 3

Sorry for this laim less educated reply. don't know the truth of it but they say that Joseph was an old man when he married Mary and that she was only 14yrs old when she had Jesus. Our present condemnation of marriages between the very young and the not so young is a more recent cultural shift in the West.

Answer 4

Ayesha probably was 9 when she married him, but the marriage wasn't consumated until she reached puberty and the fact that she was a loyal and loving wife and a close companion of Mohammed rules out any sexual abuse.

Answer 5

JAZZAKI ALLAH SIS...
a lot of non muslims argue about this issue...
and they start to accuse our beloved by horrible things and spread lies for things they just heard and don't have any clue about it...!!

may allah bless you sis
and peace to you
anno

Answer 6

Listen you grr! Would you let your 6 year old to be married to a 54 year old! How can you go so beneath decency? Has Islam taught you that?

Answer 7

what makes hadith unreliable but the quran reliable?

Answer 8

I think Most of them know about it, but they just like to annoy and mess up!!

Answer 9

no one is holy,except your father in heaven.

Answer 10

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.

And Allaah is the Source of strength. May Allaah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family and companions.