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report: we are an unlettered nation we do not write and we do not calculate

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Cited in 1 segment across 1 recording · 2017 · hadith/hadith:fp:b98a5cc4

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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