# Was Aisha really 48 when she married the Prophet? *Was Aisha 48? Her age at marriage: late teens to twenty* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/12/ - Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (52:19–54:44) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=3139s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/ **Topics:** The age of Aisha; The wives of the Prophet **Question as asked:** A book by Dr Shabbir Ahmed states that Abd al-Jabbar is the early source for Aisha being 48 when married to the Prophet; is that so? **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** No: he has never heard of 48, but says it is clear Aisha was in her late teens to about twenty when she married, not six or nine. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says it is very clear that Aisha was probably between her very late teens and twenty when she married the Prophet, and by no means a child. **Evidence, his words at 53:27:** “she was probably anything between her very late teens to 20 anything between that she was around that kind of age she was not by any means a child” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=3207s) ## Longer summary A super chat says a book by Dr Shabbir Ahmed [?] cites Abd al-Jabbar as an early source that Aisha was 48 when she married the Prophet. Mufti Abu Layth says he is not sure, probably meaning the Mu'tazili Abd al-Jabbar, and has never heard of 48. He says it is very clear that Aisha was probably between her very late teens and twenty when she married the Prophet, and by no means a child of six or nine. He says he has long planned a discussion-format programme with someone on the age of Aisha covering all the chains, and wants to put the chains into charts first. ## Sources and names cited - Aisha - Dr Shabbir Ahmed [?] - Qadi Abd al-Jabbar ## Transcript (machine tier, 52:19–54:44) [51:39] much more time so that's not my fault so he says yes but God would say yeah because I know better and if you were to live you would have actually committed so many sins so I gave you death and in fact you may have even become a car filled and therefore I gave you death to save you and give you Jenna so then the I shaadi response was that at that stage the kaffir will then ask ah in that case why didn't you grant me death as a child and they buy grant me Jenna in the afterlife and it and this [52:19] kind of paradox is where the Methuselah kind of thing crumbles so yeah that's right the fake Muftis hip same faces Lucifer Lucifer mm-hmm all right that's it man II know yeah you doing it you doing it with the super chair right you know a says a book by dr. [52:50] Shabbir Ahmed states that the LA alumina Bua abdul-jabbar has the early source of I shall bring 48 when married to the Prophet 48 I shall being 48 okay I'm not sure if by abdul-jabbar you mean abdul-jabbar probably abdul-jabbar from the Methuselah I'm not sure of 48 I've never heard of that so [53:27] not sure about that but it is very clear that the that I shall deal on ha was definitely when she married the Prophet she was probably anything between her very late teens to 20 anything between that she was around that kind of age she was not by any means a child she was not 8 to 9 and bloody six and whatever these and you know why that was I am going to do a I keep saying I'm gonna do it but I [54:04] have actually worked on it with but I wanted to do it in more a chat format because I thought if I just sit in lecture I'll get boring so I did ask or someone that look how about we do this as a discussion format on the age of Ayesha covering all the chains so he has agreed and we will hopefully do that I it's just I want her also put some of the chains in a chart a graph sorry and just haven't got around to making the graphs this is where I need a buncha secretaries I think so our assistants [54:43] right so but the reason why this whole age thing begins with Asia is you will see that what it is is that after the prophets a few decades like but in Asia's lifetime as she matures significantly there's a huge backlash against a chef by other certain people especially the Shia and the Shiite Riley and people and other people as well but especially them now they were rumors ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment a6H5lYE4MN8/s/12. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/12/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.