Recordings › Shaykh Omar Suleiman & the Yaqeen Institutes On Age of Aisha (r.a.) -Mufti Abu Layth · 30 Nov 2018 › Segment 3 of 4
What evidence suggests Aisha was older than nine when she married?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith al-bukhari imam bukhari sahih al-bukhari sahih bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari muftis dalil daleel adillah adilla proof sura soorah suwar soora chapter ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat hijrah hijrat hijri migration ulama ulema ulamaa da'wah dawat da'ee invitation nikah nikkah nikaah nikah nama nikahnama in sha allah insha'allah in shaa allah insha allah inshaa allahWhy a six-year-old makes no sense: the narrative, the battles, the engagement and the dates
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth argues that a six-year-old could not have been the help the Prophet needed, and that the battle reports, her earlier engagement, her age at death and her memory of a Makkan verse point to her being at least seventeen.
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Mufti Abu Layth returns to the picture of a six-year-old, younger than the Prophet's own children, and says she could have helped in none of the four ways, so suggesting her marriage would have made no sense. He takes up the reports in Bukhari of Aisha at the battles of Badr and Uhud carrying water and tending the wounded, and the reply, which he says Omar Suleiman also makes, that boys such as Ibn Umar [?] were turned away at fourteen and accepted at fifteen because they were to fight; he argues a fourteen-year-old boy would still have been far more useful than a girl of ten. He points to Aisha's earlier engagement to Jubayr ibn Mut'im [?], broken off because the family feared she would convert their son, and asks how a six-year-old could convert a grown man, concluding that she was at least seventeen when the Prophet proposed. He adds the calculation from her death, which he dates to 50 AH at the age of 67, and her report that she was a young girl (jariyah) who understood things when a verse of Surat al-Qamar was revealed some eight years before the hijra. He begins to say that the only reason some scholars keep the young age is that they lack a precedent.
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Mufti Abu Layth says that the marriage narrative, the battle reports, Aisha's earlier engagement to Jubayr ibn Mut'im, her age at death and her memory of a verse revealed in Makkah all indicate that she was at least seventeen when the Prophet proposed.
“at that time when the Prophet approached her she was at least seventeen at least that's what the maths show”
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could help you emotionally she could give you intimacy fine that's excellent she could take care of the kids and she could help you in your Dawa these are four key areas now let's just go back to this picture that they painting the Profi approaches Ayesha according to Bihari and she's six that's younger than his own children what is the point of bringing another child home like what was the point like I know I've got children to take care of let's just bring another child home well she can't help you emotionally she's younger than your own children and she can't which is
not incapable of intimacy she's she can't really take care of the children the children would do a better job of taking care of her some of the property while much older than Ayesha at that stage if she was six right and she definitely can't help with the Dawa she's just a six year old kid so in every way that is a stupid suggestion to say well I know oh you seem really stressed out why don't you just take another kid home and babysit that kid that makes no sense it makes no sense let alone now you look
at the other evidences and with that narrative in mind you look at the hadith in Bukhari how how other people couldn't go to war and share Omar Soliman speaks on this as well and other people and they say yeah but you see there's a difference because I sure when she was in war when she went to the Battle of Badr or heard when she participated in these battles she was helped carrying water to the sick and the wounded and helping dragging bodies and stuff like this she was attending the wounded she wasn't fighting and when Oklahoma asks inside Buhari and the Prophet says no and in the Battle of a head in Bihari he
allows him by asking him how old are you now and he says now 15 and the Prophet says okay but he was going to fight so they tried to draw this distinction but tell me having a fourteen-year-old boy helped drag bodies and carry water is much better than a ten-year-old girl by any standard on a battlefield a boy that is 14 running around dragging bodies or bringing water is still much more helpful than a 10 year old then 10 year old little girl everybody would agree I mean if you had a choice to say well all right I've got to take right okay I need
somebody that can run fast that can bring water that can carry things that can draw maybe bring armor that can bring arrows that can draw would you would you say I know I'll take that ten-year-old girl or would you take a fourteen-year-old boy so the arguments don't match and then the fact that I shall was already engaged and she'd been engaged for a few years to jebaited no more time what was she to when she got engaged and then when Jo Bates from he call off the engagement what does jemaine's mother say she says we don't want her because we're afraid she's gonna convert our son what a six-year-olds gonna convert a man Joe bade was a grown man he's worried that a
six year old girl's gonna convert him ideologically at that time when the Prophet approached her she was at least seventeen at least that's what the maths show now most people say I mean everybody pretty much accepts that Aishah passes away in fifty he jury and she is 67 years of age now you just work that backwards and how old does that make her so and some people disagree but they put it a bit forward a bit back but what I'm trying to say is Luca even when
you look at the maths now then you've got verse then you've got hadith about Ayesha saying things like I remember when surah Tamar was revealed this verse in surah Tamar I used to be a year a young girl that could understand things and that verse was revealed like something like eight years before the hey Jenna and the word Jharia is used for a young girl like somebody who's at least something like ten onwards and she says come to Julia Upton I was a jarir who could understand things yet they and I just want to put all this aside and
say look even if your research was like and the only reason these people are not saying that I sure was older I'm telling you what Allah he this is the only reason is lets truth there's two things this is for the sensible shares I'm saying there's other idiots who are doing this just because they know it provokes the West and that is the worst kind of people right and that is the worst kind of people but these shifts are not doing it for that reason AHA inshallah like not like people like cher Homer Solomon or yes there are thee and these kind of people they're doing
it just because they haven't got the courage to be the because they don't feel they have a precedent I guarantee you if one salaphi shell had said this just one if they had the precedent they just worried that we haven't got a precedent and our sect will kind of condemn us that's all because if let's say Albani had said this they would have all said it now because Albanian said it basically all they need is somebody like they don't have the courage to stand alone and they
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