# Is the hadith that Aisha was married at six authentic?

*The Aisha age hadith is fabricated: why every transmitter is Iraqi*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/20/
- Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:17:12–1:22:56)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=4632s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/

**Topics:** The age of Aisha; Narrator criticism; Salafism and Wahhabism

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth holds the hadith on Aisha's young age to be fabricated, since every transmitter is Iraqi, and says sectarian scholars defend it out of loyalty to their teachers.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith on Aisha's age at marriage is fabricated, attributing it to Hisham and noting that all its transmitters at the lower level are Iraqi.

**Evidence, his words at 1:17:12:** “you need to think for yourself see the evidence and realize that look it's true this hadith is fabricated it's been fabricated by hisham all the people that transmit it are iraqi” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=4632s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth tells viewers to think for themselves and says the hadith on Aisha's age is fabricated, coming from Hisham, with every transmitter at the lower level Iraqi, although Aisha never lived in Iraq. He asks how, some 200 years after the Prophet, the only people who knew the story could all live in Iraq, comparing it to an incident in Berlin that only people in Birmingham report. He says the Salafis, Wahhabis and neo-Wahhabis will not accept this because it would mean admitting that the hadith literature is corrupted, while Barelvis do not criticise it because they feel hadith criticism is above their competence. He says such followers would rather throw the Prophet under the bus than say their teachers were wrong, calls it blind following, and tells people to ignore scholars who defend the report.

## Sources and names cited

- Aisha
- report: the prophet married aisha at six and consummated the marriage at nine
- Hisham ibn Urwa
- Salafi
- Wahhabi
- Barelvi

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:17:12–1:22:56)

[1:16:34] sallallahu alaihi sallam that you're trying to redeem him by trying to say oh but look at king henry viii because nothing to do with king henry the eighth okay and nobody claims king henry viii was a prophet from god and people that may admire let's say rich king richard ii they don't say he was a prophet from god they don't say he was infallible they don't say oh he couldn't make mistake you know whether they murdered people people will just say yeah okay they murdered people and so i just want to get that out the way the other thing is the prophet did not marry isis at such a young age

[1:17:11] you need to get off your stupid horse whatever it is that you're so caught up on just because your sectarian scholars won't from their position right you need to think for yourself see the evidence and realize that look it's true this hadith is fabricated it's been fabricated by hisham all the people that transmit it are iraqi all the people that are transmitting this hadith at a lower level where the people from the books of the books get it from

[1:17:48] are all iraqi how is this ashara the allah never lived in iraq where is this it's all coming from hashem and then they are some of them are projecting their chains they're making them up it is unex how can this be like you tell me were they not muslims in makkah and medina 200 years after the prophet of course they were why is it by when this hadith starts to get popularized about 200 years after the prophet every single transmitter

[1:18:26] is just an iraqi how how does that make sense that's like there's an incident in let's say there's an incident in you could this is how it is almost because back then see travel wasn't as easy so you could take the example to be like this let's say there's an incident that occurs in in germany in berlin but yet generations later people want to find out about it and the only people let's say there's 50 people that speak about it there's a hundred people that speak about it but the hundred people that speak about

[1:19:05] it are all from birmingham uk all of them no german 100 years later is speaking about it no you know somebody closer to germany everybody as far you know as distant as the uk and birmingham this particular place particular region this is who the transmitters are everybody they could be 100 of us but we're all from here now are you stupid not to see that wait a minute alarm bells should be ringing how can that be right so 200 years later the only people who

[1:19:43] seem to be know this story all happen to live in iraq a cha-cha you know this is the this is the problem but the the reason they don't accept these is because if they accept this the salafis the wahhabis and the the kind of like um you see like the kind of neo-wahhabis as well the kind of like the theophandies the problem with them is they would have to admit that the hadith literature is corrupted and that is a problem because to them that could

[1:20:23] then cause later problems now yes some other sects like the railways don't openly criticize it either but that's not because you see they're so worried about the hadith literature that's because they don't feel they have the competence to criticize hadith because groups like the sects like the brilli sect are just usually very poorly trained in hadith so they feel that this forte is too it's above our pay grade to speak about bukhari and stuff like this because they're not even known for their studies on bukhari so whereas the deer when these are

[1:21:02] the selfies are but they are invested in that project so to them it's like well it's not worth it so they will never do that um they will never turn away from their project i tell you they will for the love of their teachers to not disagree with their teachers and their sect they will throw the prophet under the bus and they will just make up some oh it doesn't matter she was a little it doesn't matter oh it's okay but they will not for once say their own teachers were wrong this is the kind of blind the

[1:21:40] blind hearted following that they do their hearts are sealed i'm telling you these people they will not have the courage to say that their teachers have got it wrong but they will in essence except that the prophet is hello you know he he was doing it it doesn't you know look at that like they prepared to not compromise the honor of their teachers in this sect but the honor of the prophet isn't that important to them they'll just justify they'll just be like yeah so this is where i you know i i tell people that look when your

[1:22:18] scholars tell you this completely ignore them they are chatting they're chatting it absolutely nothing but blind dogman just they're just sheep in this statement they are just sheep to their own sect and scholars they will never disagree never um so yeah i hope i had to kind of say that because these things just disappoint me whenever i see them i think yeah but you can you can just take a look at it and you see it hmm

[1:22:55] every single person iraqi come on a cha-cha-cha iraq where was the prophet where is he rock a cha-cha yeah so right so uh what's going on some questions have i missed some how can she claim aisha's imagination then i don't know what that means

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment KWmtt2TQAO0/s/20. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/20/

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