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Aisha bint Abi Bakr[a] (c. 613/614 CE – July 678) was the Islamic prophet Muhammad 's third and youngest wife. [8][9] Little is known about her childhood. A preponderance of classical sources converge on Aisha being 6 or 7 years old at the time of her marriage, and 9 at the consummation; her age has been a source of ideological friction. [10]
Muhammad married her in 3 A.H./625 CE. [44] Zaynab bint Khuzayma was also widowed at the battle of Badr. She was the wife of Ubaydah ibn al-Harith, [45] a faithful Muslim and from the tribe of Al-Muttalib, for which Muhammad had special responsibility. [46] When her husband died, Muhammad aiming to provide for her, married her in 4 A.H.
Muhammad and Sawda were married in Ramadan of that year. Muhammad also married Aisha, a daughter of his friend and companion Abu Bakr, when she was somewhere between 6 and 9 years old, which has caused controversy in modern scholarly discussion. Both Sawda and Aisha would outlive Muhammad, dying around sometime between 642–672 and in 678 ...
Muhammad is said to have asked for arrangements to marry both. [234] According to classical sources, Muhammad married Aisha when she was 6–7 years old; the marriage was consummated later, when she was 9 years old and he was 53 years old. [n] Muhammad performed household chores such as preparing food, sewing clothes, and repairing shoes.
Aisha retaliated with "hot words until I made her quiet." Muhammad only commented that Aisha was "really the daughter of Abu Bakr." [38] Another time Zaynab refused to lend her spare camel to Safiyya; Muhammad was so angry that he did not speak to Zaynab for over two months. [3]: 90 Aisha related that the wives were divided
Shia view of Aisha. The Shi'a view of Aisha is generally unfavourable. This is primarily due to what they see as her contempt for the Ahl al-Bayt (the Islamic prophet Muhammad 's family) and her actions in the First Fitna (civil war) of the time. Her participation in the Battle of the Camel is widely considered her most significant sign of such ...
Sawdah was born and raised in Mecca in Pre-Islamic Arabia.There is a disagreement as to when she was born. [1] According to one source, when she was married to Muhammad, her age was around 50, other sources claim her age during the marriage to be around 40 to 55 years old, which would only narrow her birthday to around 566-580 CE.
Except Aisha, Muhammad only married widows and divorced women. [28] Aisha bint Abi Bakr is often thought of as the prophet's favorite wife. She is linked to the Quran's injunctions against slander in Sura 24:11–26 , for her involvement in "the affair of the lie [or, slander]" ( al-ifk ), in which she was falsely accused of "being with ...