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Opening: a response to a question on the age of Aisha

hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith muftis ulama ulema ulamaa ummah umma ummat nikah nikkah nikaah nikah nama nikahnama

AnnouncementRecorded 11 Jan 2017Mothers of the Believers: The Wives of the Blessed Prophet ﷺ Segment 1 of 18 in the recording2017-01-11-S01

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A lecture answering a question about Aisha's age at her marriage, opening with excerpts of its main points.

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The recording opens with short excerpts from later in the lecture: on the oral culture of the early Arabs, on hadith absolutism versus hadith relativism, and on the claim that Aisha was in her late teens. Mufti Abu Layth then says the lecture is a response to a question raised by an individual who asked for scholars within the Muslim community to engage him.

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they were not a people of documentation they generally had what we would call an oral culture there have been people that have felt if a Hadith comes it is absolute we are not concerned about anything we must take it as an authority but that was opposed heavily by countless Scholars who believe that the Hadith was always relative to the greater context to the greater picture and principles of Islam was not six or nine at the time of

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her marriage and she was in her late teens right this is a response to a question raised

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by an individual sarason 786 uh who's asked for any Scholars within the Muslim Community to engage him so I'm taking this opportunity to do that I do uh believe that the questions being asked at the very least are genuine and I also feel that these kind of questions really reflect a greater Echo that's throughout the Muslim communities and also non-muslim communities right so the question is to do with the age of uh and when she married the prophet

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2017-01-11-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/1/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2017, January 11). Opening: a response to a question on the age of Aisha [Video, segment 2017-01-11-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/1/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2017. "Opening: a response to a question on the age of Aisha." Video, segment 2017-01-11-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded January 11, 2017. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/1/

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@misc{abulayth-2017-01-11-S01,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Opening: a response to a question on the age of Aisha}},
  year = {2017},
  month = {1},
  date = {2017-01-11},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/1/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/1/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2017-01-11-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}

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