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report: aisha married at six and the marriage consummated at nine

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Cited in 3 segments across 1 recording · 2017 · hadith/hadith:fp:8ba24dc2

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11 Jan 2017Mothers of the Believers: The Wives of the Blessed Prophet ﷺ The question, Mufti Abu Layth's thesis and premise one: dating in an oral culture Mufti Abu Layth holds that Aisha married in her late teens, not at six or nine. His first premise is that the early Arabs kept no precise dates, so ages and years in reports often conflict. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-BukhariSahih Muslimreport: aisha married at six and the marriage consummated at ninereport: we are an unlettered nation we do not write and we do not calculate machine9 min 08 s7:50on YouTube
11 Jan 2017Mothers of the Believers: The Wives of the Blessed Prophet ﷺ The reports: Bukhari's six and nine against three other Bukhari reports The six-and-nine report conflicts with three other Bukhari reports: Aisha as a jariyah at an early revelation, her memory of her parents' Islam and Abu Bakr's migration, and her presence at Uhud when a fourteen-year-old boy was refused. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-BukhariSahih MuslimHisham ibn Urwajariyah (girl approaching adolescence) machine10 min 31 s47:06on YouTube
11 Jan 2017Mothers of the Believers: The Wives of the Blessed Prophet ﷺ The reports: Hisham's Iraqi transmission, Madinan silence and Asma's age The six-and-nine report rests on Hisham ibn Urwa's later Iraqi transmission and no Madinan compiler carries it. Asma's reported age makes Aisha about eighteen at her marriage. Lessonposition checkedHisham ibn UrwaImam MalikIbn Shihab al-ZuhriIbn Hajar [?] machine5 min 12 s57:37on YouTube