Anonymous ID: 7d473d Jan. 16, 2024, 2:04 p.m. No.20253794   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3802

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Excerpt…….

Let us begin with the sources. According to the ninth-century collection of Sunni Islam’s foremost Hadith authority, the Imam Muhammad bin Ismail al-Bukhari, which is popularly known as “Sahih al-Bukhari,” or “Bukhari’s Sound Hadith,” Aisha was 6 years old when her “nikah” (marriage) with Muhammad was officially contracted, and 9 years old when it was consummated. Some commentators, such as the right-wing author Douglas Murray, argue that this is sufficient proof that Muhammad is, in today’s terms, a pedophile, though Murray’s own analysis was more nuanced than simply condemning the prophet.

 

“Of course, most of us would also remember that in the past different norms existed, and we should try to understand their context,” he wrote. “But deciding that nothing critical can be said of such a person or set of actions is a problem, isn’t it?”

 

https://newlinesmag.com/essays/why-scholars-of-islam-disagree-about-the-age-of-the-prophet-muhammads-youngest-wife

Anonymous ID: 7d473d Jan. 16, 2024, 2:10 p.m. No.20253823   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>20253802

>>20253803

Not talking about the boss, responding to a different thread.. Catch up

 

At least in medieval times they waited till 13. But not unusual to contract when they were truly children, some even at birth. Arranged marriages were are and are still a thing.