Why did Muhammad have sex with a 9 year old?

Question

Why did Muhammad ram a 9 year old when he was 54? Maybe if Muhammad was lets say in his teens it could be considered as "normal" but 54? Now days if Muhammad did that he'd be sent to jail for having sex with a minor and be locked up for a long long time. This also is disgusting behavior considering Muhammad is considered "the best example for man kind" =S


According to young Aisha:

"My mother came to me while I was being swung on a swing between two branches and got me down. My nurse took over and wiped my face with some water and started leading me. When I was at the door she stopped so I could catch my breath. I was brought in while Muhammad was sitting on a bed in our house. My mother made me sit on his lap. The other men and women got up and left. The Prophet consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old. "

Tabari, Volume 9, Page 131


Why did this young girl have to go through that? She never had kids I wonder why.... ='(

Answer 1

Actually, historical evidence indicates that it is impossible for this "hadith" to be valid. Aisha was young, but not that young. Historical evidence indicates that she was at least 14 years old, and more likely at least 15 when she married the Prophet (pbuh), and marriage at 14-15 was perfectly acceptable everywhere in the world, up to within the past century. It has only been in the past 50 years or so that people have delayed marriage until they have been in their mid to late 20s.

Evidence from Islamic literature:

* According to hadith in Bukhari and Muslim, Aisha is said to have joined Muhammad on the raid that culminated in the Battle of Badr, in 624 CE[24] and then in 625 CE in the Battle of Uhud.[25] As no one below the age of fifteen was allowed to accompany raiding parties,[26][27] Aisha should have been at least fifteen in 624 CE and thus at least thirteen when she was married following the Hijra in 622 CE.
* Ibn Hisham's recension of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rashul Allah, the earliest surviving biography of Muhammad, records Aisha as having converted to Islam before Umar ibn al-Khattab, during the first few years of Islam around 610 CE. In order to accept Islam she must have been walking and talking, hence at least three years of age, which would make her at least fifteen in 622 CE.[28]
* Tabari reports that Abu Bakr wished to spare Aisha the discomforts of a journey to Ethiopia soon after 615 CE, and tried to bring forward her marriage to Mut`im ibn `Uday's son. Mut`am refused because Abu Bakr had converted to Islam, but if Aisha was already of marriageable age in 615 CE, she must have been older than nine in 622 CE.[29][4](p.91)
* Tabari also reports that Abu Bakr's four children were all born during the Jahiliyyah,[30] the pre Islamic period, which is said to have ended in 610 CE, making Aisha at least twelve in 622 CE when Aisha started living with Muhammad.
* 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".[31] The 54th Surah of the Qur'an was revealed nine years before Hijrah.[32] 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 16 to 23.
* According to almost all the historians, Asma bint Abu Bakr, the elder sister of Aisha, was ten years older than Aisha.[33][34] Asma is reported to die in the 73 AH, when she was 100 years old.[35][36] 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.

Answer 2

No one has any idea how old Aisha was when she got married. Some say she was 6, others say 17. In Islam a girl is an adult when she gets her first period because she is able to carry children in her womb, go through pregnancy, and childbirth. That doesn't mean marry her off as soon as she becomes an adult. I think Shia are the only ones who think that Aisha was 9 when she consummated the marriage with the Prophet. There are weak Hadiths and strong Hadiths. If you want some truth on this you must find a strong Hadith and read from that. Not weak Hadiths because they are made by people who lied at least once in their lifetime and are not reliable.

Answer 3

I love how people have no sources and just tell you you are a bigot and wrong, yet you quote islamic sources. Over a dozen muslims, who have over a dozen differant answers, which all contradict each other.
Even the aithists are angry with you for asking (that I don't get???).
You did not make up the hadiths...did you? Is Imam al-Bukhari a enemy bigot hater of islam?

edited:

Look, bottom line, many muslims in the world believe this. They make excuses for it (like that girls finish puberty at 6 or something back then...it is not true, and this was only 1400 years ago, and there are also hadiths saying she still played with dolls). And saying "well other people back then did it too" does not work, since according to muslims muhammed was in his actions the "best example to be followed for all time". As a prophet he is to be held to a higher standard than just everyone else was doing it.

Muslims need to start questioning this stuff for real and denouncing it, instead of just ignoring it and calling you a bigot because you bring it up (like azfarahmad down there going through logical fallacy gymnastics to make his argument).

To say it is obscure and just wrong, does not work, as the Marriage LAWS of Iran are based on this. That is why in Iran you can marry a 9 year old girl (9 lunar years is 8 years and nine months, as they use a lunar calander). BTW: These hadiths say married at 6, marriage consummated at 9. It is not me making things up.

Muslims: please go tell your brothers in the world that it is wrong. Use islamic sources to discredit it, please. Tell ayatollah khomeini and the rest of those sharia scholars they are wrong. I really wish you luck. Peace

BTW: She was not offered to muhammed by a rival clan and he did it to make peace, Abu Bakr was his brother by pledge, in fact the hadith is:

Sahih Bukhari 7.18
Narrated 'Ursa:
The Prophet asked Abu Bakr for 'Aisha's hand in marriage. Abu Bakr said "But I am your brother." The Prophet said, "You are my brother in Allah's religion and His Book, but she (Aisha) is lawful for me to marry."

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Look I'm getting these from a haditha program from Arabia, please e-mail Islamsoft Solutions, and tell them they are wrong.

Answer 4

The best answer's answer is simply not true, only a very small minority of scholars try to suggest Aisha wasn't actually 9. She definitely was she was married at 6 and had her period at 9 or 10 which is when they consummated the marriage. And he did it because he's a paedophile man. He also had 13 wives. Which is kind of sexist if you ask me.

Answer 5

In that time a 9 year old girl was physicaly ready to marry en ayesha was of age . Yes she was being swung between two branches , you're right but if read more you'd see she really liked to play with kids even when she was an adult . In "Tabari" we read that Abubakr himself asked muhammad to marry his daughter , en again in "Tabari" we read that in arabia , refusing to marry a girl from a famous tribe was an insult to the girl's family and meant saying yes to an unwelcomed war ! whereas accepting the propsal meant starting a long-life friendship between two clans , that was what Islam really needed so much .Yes UNITY and the marriage took place for a political purpose .
now accepting the truth is all up to you .
I'm realy fed up with your boring hate !

Answer 6

THe funny thing is that even tell you BIGOT for asking this, haha, they would tell you was to "protect her", hahaha, they are so funny they will even forget that the girl in question had an elder sister, for adding insult to injury, but of course, this one was the pretty one.

Great character of the "prophet" so close to God that find pretty a girl of 6 (he married her at 6), this was just one of the thousand of sins of Mohamed.

Still in this strange religion of twisted values, they call Mohamed to the 93 % of their Boys and Ayesha to the 72 % of the girls.

So romantic a man of 54 having sex with a girl of 9...Creepy and deeply pathetic. You have to be a real Bigot to address an excuse to such a devastation of character.

Answer 7

I'd like to recommend a book that will answer your questions and maybe some questions you didn't know you had. It's called "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades" by Robert Spencer. He's an authority on Islam and the Middle East and is a contributing editor to Human Events Online.com

Answer 8

There are many questions like this, used to attack Islam. You will find in all of them reasons why this is a weak argument based on weak evidence and misinterpretation. You may want to address why so many good Christians who were Mohammad's contemporaries engaged in this same practice. Also, you may want to define what doctrines of Islam it is you really have a problem with, instead of engaging in cheap attempts at character assassination.

Answer 9

What is "disgusting" is your language while you're questioning a concept you obviously know nothing about. Back in Muhammad's time frame girls achieved puberty (menses onset) earlier in life than now, even before the age of 13, and the onset of menses was considered marriageable. To top it off the actual age of when he took her as a wife might have been more like in her early teens, so learn before you start tossing around vile speech to stir the poo pot.

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Answer 10

Jeremiah 50, Ezekiel Chapter 1, 10, Isaiah 59....simple