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Amjad [?]

Cited in 2 segments across 2 recordings · 2020 · scholar/scholar:amjad

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12 Oct 2020video Writers who place Aisha in her teens, and how narrators exaggerated ages Several modern writers conclude that Aisha was in her teens at marriage, and the speakers explain the hadith's figures as numbers garbled and exaggerated downwards by narrators. Khadija's age, by contrast, was exaggerated upwards from about twenty-eight to forty. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechAishareport: married her when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was nineRuqaiyyah Waris Maqsood [?]Amjad [?] machine4 min 05 s5:13on YouTube
22 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth How old was Aisha when she married the Prophet? Writers such as Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood and Jamal Badawi conclude that Aisha was in her teens, and the report that her sister Asma died at a hundred in the year 73 puts her at about eighteen when she moved in with the Prophet. The guest explains the hadith's six and nine as numbers exaggerated downwards, as Khadija's forty was exaggerated upwards. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechDr Shabir Ally (guest)Aishareport: married her when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was nineRuqaiyyah Waris Maqsood machine8 min 55 s33:52on YouTube