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Aisha's Age at Marriage

Islamic Scholar DESTROYS Islamic Scholar Over Muhammad’s Child Marriage (Yasir Qadhi, Farid, Uthman) - YouTube

Here is the hadith about the swing

The hadith about mohamed scaring little aisha / the translation is played with here, the real translation from the word يرعني in arabic is scared me and not came to me suddenly

The hadith about force feeding her to get fat : “My mother was trying to fatten me up when she wanted to send me to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) (when she got married), but nothing worked until I ate cucumbers with dates; then I grew plump like the best kind of plump.”

Here’s aisha playing with dolls : I was playing with dolls in the Prophet’s house and I had companions who played with me; but when God’s Messenger entered they would withdraw from him. He would then send them to me and they would play with me.

The quranic basis for child marriage is actually surah 65 (al Talaq) verse 4. This passage is about the islamic period of waiting (iddah) following a divorce and it explicitly says prepubescent girls who never had their periods have a 3 month iddah following a divorce. This is understood by the consensus of scholars to mean that child marriage and its consummation is halal, since the iddah does not apply to marriages which were never consummated (verse 33:49).

Let’s read 65:4 now shall we.

And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women - if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated. And for those who are pregnant, their term is until they give birth. And whoever fears Allah - He will make for him of his matter ease.

Now let’s see what the context of revelation is for this verse

 Abu ‘Uthman ‘Amr ibn Salim said: “When the waiting period for divorced and widowed women was mentioned in Surah al-Baqarah (2:228), Ubayy ibn Ka‘b said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, some women of Medina are saying: there are other women who have not been mentioned!’ He asked him: ‘And who are they?’ He said: ‘Those who are too young [such that they have not started menstruating yet], those who are too old [whose menstruation has stopped] and those who are pregnant’. And so this verse (65:4) was revealed”.

Source : Asbab Al-Nuzul by Al-Wahidi. https://quranx.com/tafsirs/65.4

Therefore, on the basis of these verses AND on the basis of Muhammad and his companions marrying little girls AND on the basis of the consensus of the scholars of sunni and shia islam, child marriage is completely HALAL.

For more information, read the following : https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur%27an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Child_Marriage

Getting married at an early age is something that is confirmed by the book of Allah, the Sunnah of his Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam), the consensus of the scholars and the actions of the companions, and the Muslims who came after them.
Source : https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatwa/88089/