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" Volume 7, Book 62, Number 64: Narrated 'Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death). "

"Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 62:
Wedlock, Marriage (Nikaah)"

http://FaithFreedom.org

http://www.homa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89&a...
Dr. HOMA DARABI ex-Muslim of Iran
"Mohammed the Pedxxxxxx"
http://danielpipes.org/blog/comments/137024


★ http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/childbrides.htm
"... Many Muslims dont know this and
by their own standards Muhammad did
the wrong thing in having sex
with a child.

Muslims have to answer for their
continued support for Muhammad because
he transgresses their standards ..."



9 Arab years = 8 years 9 months
in general solar years


"... 3) EVIDENCE THAT AISHA WAS 9 WHEN SHE CONSUMMATED HER MARRIAGE

Now that weve established that Islam
allows husbands to engage in sex with
their child-brides, lets move on to
Muhammad and Aisha.

The Islamic source materials state that
Aisha was 9 when they consummated their
marriage.


From the hadith of Bukhari, volume 5, #234

"Narrated Aisha: The prophet engaged me
when I was a girl of six. We went to
Medina and stayed at the home of Harith
Kharzraj. Then I got ill and my hair
fell down.

Later on my hair grew (again) and my
mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was
playing in a swing with some of my girl
friends.

She called me, and I went to her, not
knowing what she wanted to do to me.

She caught me by the hand and made me
stand at the door of the house. I was
breathless then, and when my breathing
became all right, she took some water
and rubbed my face and head with it.

Then she took me into the house.

There in the house I saw some Ansari
women who said, "Best wishes and Allah's
blessing and a good luck." Then she
entrusted me to them and they prepared
me (for the marriage).

Unexpectedly Allah's messenger came to
me in the forenoon and my mother handed
me over to him, and at that time I was a
girl of nine years of age."


Bukhari vol. 7, #65:

"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).""


From the hadith of Muslim, volume 2, #3309

Aisha reported: Allahs Messenger married
me when I was six years old, and I was
admitted to his house at the age of
nine.




From the hadith of the Sunan
of Abu Dawud, volume 2, #2116

"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."




From "The History of Tabari", volume 9,
page 131

"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 ...


... Aisha went to live in an apartment
in Muhammad's house, later the mosque of
Median.

She cannot have been more than ten years
old at the time and took her toys to her
new home."




SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE OF AISHA'S AGE

The above references are just a sample
of the Islamic source material
statements that Aisha was 9 when her
marriage was consummated.


Over and over again the great Islamic
scholars state that Aisha was 9 when her
marriage was consummated.


No serious Muslim scholar doubts this.


Generally it is only embarrassed Muslims
living in the West who challenge her age.


For a more in-depth presentation of the
evidence of Aishas age being 9, see Sams
article here.

http://www.answering-islam.org/Shamoun/prepubescent.htm
"Muhammad and Aisha Revisited:
An Examination of Muhammads Marriage to
a Prepubescent Girl And Its Moral
Implications

Sam Shamoun

Not only Christians, not only
Westerners, but many people from various
cultures are troubled when they discover
that Islams prophet, Muhammad, married
a nine-year-old girl named Aisha.


Some go so far as to accuse Muhammad of
being a pedxxxxxx, using such emotive
language as "child moxxxxxx" to describe
Muhammad for marrying a young prepubescent girl ..."

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