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ABOUT Wednesday, August 10, 2016

My name is Keith Thompson. I Revisiting the Age of Aisha Pt. 1

am a Christian apologist and
documentary film maker. I
write for www.Answering-
Islam.org and am the owner of By Sam Shamoun
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Ministries. I can be reached at
In this rebuttal we are going to be addressing another shameful attempt to justify Muhammad’s marriage to a 9-
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year-old minor. The following comments and interaction are taken from the website of Muslim apologist and
Georgetown professor Jonathan A. C. Brown:
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bigdumbbear 7 points 6 months ago

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Dr. Brown if you do not mind, one more question!
- Black Hebrew Israelites
The age of Aisha at the time of her marriage to Prophet Muhammad.
Debunked
- Darwinism's Downfall Keep in mind that I (and many others on this board) became your biggest fan after your video response
- Sword and the Crescent to this question. My question is as follows: The critics admit that the age of Aisha between 9 and 12
- Atheists Don't Exist when she married the Prophet was not out of the norm at that time. However, they argue, that Prophet
- Purgatory Debunked Muhammad is the role model of humanity and hence, him marrying Aisha at that age means that either
- Reformed Answers on the Prophet Muhammad was not a role model in every way, but a product of his time and place and also
Roman Corruption of that since marrying at 9 in this day and age is a crime in pretty much every country out there that would
Christianity
then mean that Prophet Muhammad's actions do not have meaning today. Sorry if this came out as a
- Word of Faith Teachers:
stream of consciousness. Would you address this issue with regards to Lady Aisha's age? Thank you
Origins & Errors of Their
Teaching kindly sir.
- Joel Osteen: Origins and
Errors of his Teaching [–]DrJonathanBrown [S] 29 points 6 months ago
- Historical Case for Paul's Salam, the Prophet's marrying Aisha at the age of nine was not unusual at the time. We know this
Apostleship: Critique of because there is no record of him being criticized for this, while the Quran does record criticisms of
Muslim Arguments his marriage to Zainab, which was controversial and unusual at the time. The Prophet's actions are
not all normative for us; we do not have to do everything he did, and in many cases, it would not be
right to act as he did in our particular circumstances. We know that because according to a Hadith
VIDEO TEACHINGS in the Sunan of Al-Nasai, the Prophet did not allow his daughter Fatima to marry Abu Bakr
- An Historical Case for because of the age difference between the two. Finally, there are some elements of the Prophet's
Christ's Resurrection Sunnah that are actually prohibited for us, like continuous fasting and marrying more than four
- Adolf Hitler was not a women. To say that "the Prophet being our role model" means that we have to do everything he did is to
Christian misunderstand the nature of the Sunnah's normative quality.
- Refuting the Lie John Invented
Sayings of Jesus [–]bizzish 2 points 6 months ago
- Shabir Ally & Raymond Fatima (ra) married Abu Bakr?
Brown’s Redaction Criticism of
John Don't you mean Ali?
- Answering Muslims: Is Jesus
a Son Among Tons? [–]tinkthank 3 points 6 months ago
- Refuting Bart Ehrman’s Re-read his comment.
“Passion Contradictions”
the Prophet did not allow his daughter Fatima to marry Abu Bakr because of the age difference
Muslims Parrot
- How Salvation Works: Plain between the two.
and Simple Ali (ra) was married to Fatima
- Catholic Idol Worshiper's Big
Justification Lie [–]Dirtydunn 1 point 6 months ago
- Jesus Sent for Jews Only?: You misread. He saying that rasulallah didn't marry Fatima to abu bakr RA for the reason of age
Answering Muslims differences. Abu bakr is about two years younger than rasulallah and about 27 years older than
- Old Testament Genocide?: Fatima.
Answering "Atheists"
- The Bible and Slavery: You could come out with the understanding that when looking for a potential spouse for your child that
Answering "Atheists" you look at their fitrah (nature). Some children may have no problems with a large age gap while others
- Absurdities of Youtube Atheist may have problems. (Dr. Jonathan Brown, /r/Islam!; bold emphasis ours)
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Brown makes the same point in his book on Muhammad:
“There is nothing more controversial to the modern reader than Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha, who is
believed to have been between nine and ten years old when the marriage was consummated. (The
MOST RELIABLE historical sources on this marriage are the Sahih Hadith collections of al-
Bukhari and Muslim (see Chapter 3)). Interestingly, no critic of Muhammad, from his fiercest
opponents in the Quraysh to medieval Christian clerics, objected to his marriage to so young a wife
until the modern period. This is noteworthy, since there has certainly never been a shortage of
detractors seeking chinks in the armour of Muhammad’s character to exploit.
“It was his marriage to Zaynab, his adopted son’s former wife, which attracted criticism even during
Muhammad’s own lifetime. The fact that Zayd is one of only two contemporaries of Muhammad ever
mentioned in the Quran (the other is Abu Lahab), as well as the book’s sizeable passage on the Zaynab
episode, testifies to the controversy surrounding Muhammad’s marriage to her. One of the earliest
Christian polemicists against Islam, John of Damascus (d. 749), accused Muhammad of ‘tailoring’ the
Quranic laws on marriage and adoption to legitimize his ‘desire’ for Zaynab. This accusation has been
repeated endlessly throughout Christian writings on Islam. The 13th-century English historian Matthew
Paris, for example, wrote in his great chronicle that Muhammad had pronounced polygamy permissible
to cover up an affair with a servant’s (presumably Zayd’s) wife.” (Muhammad: A Very Short
Introduction [Oxford University Press Inc., New York 2011], pp. 76-77; bold and capital emphasis
ours)
Suffice it to say Brown’s claims are brimming with errors, as we are about to demonstrate.
To begin with, Brown is doing nothing more than to argue from silence, which is a gross logical fallacy. Just
because we have no extant written record of people raising an objection to a 54-year-old Muhammad marrying
a 9-year-old minor doesn’t mean that no one ever objected. The only thing this proves is that no one preserved
a written record of any complaint. As such, absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.
This brings us to the next point. As Brown acknowledges, Muhammad objected to giving his young daughter in
marriage to either Abu Bakr or Umar:
7) Chapter: A Woman Marrying Someone WHO IS SIMILAR IN AGE TO HER
Narrated 'Abdullah bin Buraidah: It was narrated from 'Abdullah bin Buraidah that his father said: "Abu
Bakr and 'Umar proposed marriage to Fatimah but the Messenger of Allah said: 'SHE IS YOUNG.'
Then 'Ali proposed marriage to her AND HE MARRIED HER TO HIM."
Grade: Sahih (Darussalam)
Reference: Sunan an-Nasa'i 3221
In-book reference: Book 26, Hadith 26
English translation: Vol. 4, Book 26, Hadith 3223 (Sunnah.com; capital and underline emphasis ours)
Some say that Fatima was born in the year 605 AD, while others say it was 615 AD. According to the Islamic
sources, Fatima married Ali in the second year of the Hirah, which would be approximately 624 AD. This
places her age at the time of her marriage at either 9 or 19. Keep in mind that Abu Bakr is believed to have
been born around the year 573 AD, while Umar’s birth is placed at approximately 583 AD. This means that
Abu Bakr was 51 years old, while Umar was 41 years old, when they had asked for Fatima’s hand in marriage.
Either age raises problems for Muhammad’s marriage with Aisha. If Fatima was too young at 9 to marry either
Abu Bakr or Umar then what does this say about Aisha's marriage seeing that she was the exact same age when
a 54 year old Muhammad took her to bed? In fact, the hadiths say that Aisha was still playing with her dolls
and on swings when Muhammad took her home to have sex with her:
'A'isha reported: Allah's Messenger married me when I was six years old, and I was admitted to
his house at the age of nine. She further said: We went to Medina and I had an attack of fever for a
month, and my hair had come down to the earlobes. Umm Ruman (my mother) came to me and I was
at that time on a swing along with my playmates. She called me loudly and I went to her and I did
not know what she had wanted of me. She took hold of my hand and took me to the door, and I was
saying: Ha, ha (as if I was gasping), until the agitation of my heart was over. She took me to a
house, where had gathered the women of the Ansar. They all blessed me and wished me good luck and
said: May you have share in good. She (my mother) entrusted me to them. They washed my head and
embellished me and nothing frightened me. Allah's Messenger came there in the morning, and I was
entrusted to him. (Sahih Muslim, Book 008, Number 3309)
'A'isha reported that Allah's Apostle married her when she was seven years old, and she was taken to
his house as a bride when she was nine, and her dolls were with her; and when he (the Holy
Prophet) died she was eighteen years old. (Sahih Muslim, Book 008, Number 3311)
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Aisha said: The Apostle of Allah married me when I was seven years old. The narrator
Or six years. He had intercourse with me when I was nine years old. (Sunan
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Yunus b. Bukayr stated, from Hisham b. ‘Urwa, from his father who said, "The Messenger of God
married ‘A’isha three years after (the death of) Khadija. At that time (of the contract) ‘A’isha had been a
girl of six. When he married her she was nine. The Messenger of God died when ‘A’isha was a girl of
eighteen.”
This tradition is considered gharib (unique in this line).
Al-Bukhari had related, from ‘Ubayd b. Isma‘il, from Abu Usama, from Hisham b. ‘Urwa, from his
father, who said, "Khadija died three years before the emigration of the Prophet. He allowed a couple of
years or so to pass after that, and then he contracted marriage with ‘A’isha when she was six, thereafter
consummating marriage with her when she was nine years old."
What ‘Urwah stated here is mursal, incomplete, as we mentioned above, but in its content it must be
judged as muttasil, uninterrupted.
His statement, "He contracted marriage with ‘A’isha when she was six, thereafter consummating
marriage with her when she was nine" IS NOT DISPUTED BY ANYONE, and is well established in
the sahih collections of traditions and elsewhere. (Ibn Kathir, The Life of the Prophet Muhammad
(Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya), translated by professor Trevor Le Gassick, reviewed by Dr. Muneer Fareed
[Garnet Publishing Limited, 8 Southern Court, south Street Reading RG1 4QS, UK; The Center for
Muslim Contribution to Civilization, first paperback edition, 2000], Volume II, pp. 93-94; bold and
capital emphasis ours)
If instead we go with the age of 19 then what does this say of a 9 year old minor marrying a man that was old
enough to be her great great grandfather? After all, if a 19-year-old girl was too young to marry a 51 or a 41
year old man, then how much more a 9-year-old girl? How could it be right for a 54-year-old man to bed
someone so young in age, especially when that man is supposed to be a prophet whom God sent to be an
example for all humanity? More on this last point later.
And if Fatima was too young for marriage then why did her father marry her off to his paternal first cousin Ali?
After all, if she were too young for either Abu Bakr or Umar then this would also make her too young for Ali as
well.
Or should we take this as another instance of Muhammad telling a boldfaced lie, especially to his two best
friends, since it wasn’t that he believed she was too young, but that he didn’t want to give her in marriage to
them since he intended to give her away to his first cousin? Muhammad, therefore, had to come up with some
excuse for his unwillingness to wed his daughter to his two fathers-in-law.
Now a Muslim may argue (as Brown himself does above) that the point of the hadith isn’t that Fatima was too
young to get married. Rather, what Muhammad meant was that she was too young to marry someone as old as
Abu Bakr or Umar. Yet even this explanation raises problems. After all, if a 51-year-old Abu Bakr and a 41-
year-old Umar were too old to marry someone as young as Fatima then again what does this say about a 54-
year-old Muhammad marrying a 9 year old minor still playing with her dolls?
Besides, what does this say about Muhammad’s consistency or lack thereof? Doesn’t this again perfectly
illustrate that Muhammad failed to practice what he preached, and was therefore a hypocrite, since he imposed
rules and restrictions upon others that he himself did not follow?
This isn’t the only case where a person was reprimanded for desiring to marry a young premature girl. When
the Caliph Umar asked to marry Ali’s daughter, he was expressly told that she wasn’t mature enough for
marriage:
The marriage of `Umar with Umm Kulthum al-Hashimiyya (6 - 49) the daughter of `Ali and Fatima
took place on the year 17 of the Hijra. `Ali gave her away to `Umar upon his request although he was
afraid at first that `Umar might not accept her due to her youth and because he wished her to marry one
of her cousins among the sons of Ja`far ibn Abi Talib. But `Umar said, “Marry her to me for I swear I
have toward her more dedication to excellent companionship than any man on the face of the earth.”…
Ibn Kathir's Tarikh states the year 16 for the marriage of `Umar with Umm Kulthum; so she was
between 10 and 12 since her date of birth is mentioned by al-Dhahabi in Siyar A`lam al-Nubala' as
around the 6th year after the Hijra. Allah knows best from where the claim that she "was 5 or 4" comes
from…
The Sunnis do not claim that she was 4 or 5 in the year 17 but 11 or 12…
What was the age for Omar at the time of the marriage?
Approximately forty-seven. Umm Kulthum was between 10 and 12.
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Kulthum bint ‘Ali, by GF Haddad; bold and underline emphasis ours)
And:
'Umar asked 'Ali for the hand of his daughter, Umm Kulthum in marriage. 'Ali replied that she has not
yet attained the age (of maturity). 'Umar replied, 'By Allah, this is not true. You do not want her to
marry me. If she is underage, send her to me'. Thus 'Ali gave his daughter Umm Kulthum a dress and
asked her to go to 'Umar and tell him that her father wants to know what this dress is for. When she
came to Umar and gave him the message, he grabbed her hand and forcibly pulled her towards
him. 'Umm Kulthum asked him to leave her hand, which Umar did and said, 'You are a very
mannered lady with great morals. Go and tell your father that you are very pretty and you are not what
he said of you'. With that 'Ali married Umm Kulthum to 'Umar.
Tarikh Khamees, Volume 2, p. 384 ('Dhikr Umm Kalthum') and Zakhair Al-Aqba, p. 168 (Bold and
underline emphasis ours)
Here is the final reference:
'Umar marries Umm Kulthum Daughter of 'Ali
MS. fo. 79a-b
This and some of the following traditions have nothing to do with the Sira proper and belong in time to
the caliphate. After reporting that Zayd and an unnamed girl were born of the marriage, Ibn Ishaq
reports a tradition from 'Asim ibn 'Umar ibn Qatada to the effect that when 'Umar asked 'Ali for Umm
Kulthum's hand 'Ali made the excuse that she was too young. 'Umar replied that that was not the real
reason for his hesitation: he wanted to refuse his consent. Let him send her to him that he might see for
himself. So 'Ali gave her a robe and told her to go to the commander of the faithful and say, "My father
says 'What do you think of this dress?'" She went and said these words and 'Umar took hold of her shift.
She tried to get it from him saying "Let go!", and he let go exclaiming "A virtuous woman! Go and
say to him 'It is fine and beautiful, not at all as you said it was'." (Alfred Guillaume, New Light on the
Life of Muhammad [Manchester University Press], p.50; bold and underline emphasis ours)
We are again confronted with a situation where a 10-12 year old girl is said to be too young to get married,
especially to a 47-year-old man.
Once again, if a 10-12 year old girl is not mature enough to marry then what do we say of a 9-year-old minor
who hadn’t reached puberty yet marrying a man old enough to be her great great grandfather? After all, if the
age of 47 made Umar too old for Umm Kulthum, then what does this say of a 54 year-old Muhammad
marrying a prepubescent child?
More importantly, these examples of Muhammad and Ali complaining about the young age of Fatima and
Umm Kulthum expose the boldfaced lie that no one at that time had a problem with grown men marrying and
having sex with prepubescent minors.
This is just the beginning of Brown’s woes, as we shall see in the next part of our rebuttal.
Posted by Keith Thompson at 10:38 AM
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FH Sanders August 10, 2016 at 2:21 PM
Thank you for this wonderful article, brother Shamoun. May the Lord bless you.
In my humble opinion, we should use the work from Dr. Brown more in our apologetics, since it seems quite clear
that in his writings and talks he (rather unwillingly I assume) exposes Muhammad and Islam for what they really
are. See for instance this quote from his popular book "Misquoting Muhammad" (Oneworld, 2014), pp. 101-102
where he admits that classical Islam preaches offensive jihad with the goal of conquering non-Muslim territory:
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It is in the Islamic rules of war, in fact, that the doctrine of abrogation has been most consequential. The Qur’an’s
commandments on conflict and warfare range from passive forbearance to declarations of open war. This befits a
document that unfolded over more than two decades of preaching, persecution, incipient conflict and finally
declared war and truces. The reasons of revelations tell us of a slow escalation. Non-violent instructions to
‘dispute with [the Meccans] in the best way’ and declare ‘Unto you your religion, unto me mine’ (16:125;109:6)
give way to permitting Muhammad and his followers to fight the Meccans after being driven out from the city into
exile in Medina: ‘Permission is given to those who fight because they were wronged, verily God is most able to
give them succor, those who were driven from their homes unjustly, for but saying, “Our Lord is God”’ (22:39).
Yet even war with the Meccans and their allies was restricted by principles of proportionality:
Fight those who fight you, but aggress not, verily God loves not the aggressors. And slay them wherever you find
them, and drive them from whence they drove you, for strife is worse than killing... So fight them until there is no
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In a rare instance of agreement, the classical ulama declared all these verses, along with their clear principles of
proportionality and non-aggression, to be abrogated by the ‘Sword Verses,’ the moniker for a few
decontextualized segments of Qur’anic verses suggesting unrestricted offensive war, such as ‘Fighting has been
ordained for you’ (2:216) and ‘Slay the polytheists wherever you find them’ (9:5). In all, a total of 124 Qur’anic
verses were considered abrogated by the ‘Sword Verses.’ Jihad for the expansion of the Abode of Islam thus
became a collective duty for the Muslim polity according to all Sunni schools of law. Leading medieval jurists
ruled that the caliphs must undertake Jihad at least once a year against the most proximate foe (based on analogy
to the annual collection of the jizya poll-tax from non-Muslim subjects), though the Prophet’s treaties with the
Meccans meant that extended truces were allowed.
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