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Why Did Muhammad Consummate a Marriage with Aisha, a Girl Just Nine Years Old?

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Afghan Woman with Child in the Province of Parwan, Afghanistan

Afghan Woman with Child in the Province of Parwan, Afghanistan

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The Prophet said, “The superiority of ‘Aisha to other ladies is like the superiority of Tharid (i.e. meat and bread dish) to other meals. Many men reached the level of perfection, but no woman reached such a level except Mary, the daughter of Imran and Asia, the wife of Pharaoh.” (Hadith - Bukhari, 4.643)

Narrated Hisham’s father: Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he married ‘Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old. (Hadith - Bukhari, 5.236)

Narrated Aisha that the prophet wrote the marriage contract with her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old. Hisham said: “I have been informed that Aisha remained with the prophet for nine years (i.e. till his death).” (Hadith - Bukhari, 7.65)

Aisha reported: Allah’s Messenger married me when I was six years old, and I was admitted to his house at the age of nine…. (Hadith - Muslim, 8.3310)

Aisha said, “The Apostle of Allah married me when I was seven years old.” (The narrator Sulaiman said: “Or six years.”). “He had intercourse with me when I was 9 years old.” (Hadith - Abu Dawud, 2.2116)

“Then the men and women got up and left. The Messenger of God consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old. Neither a camel nor a sheep was slaughtered on behalf of me”......(The Prophet) married her three years before the Emigration, when she was seven years old and consummated the marriage when she was nine years old, after he had emigrated to Medina in Shawwal. She was eighteen years old when he died. (Hadith - Tabari: volume 9, page 131)

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