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Ibn Saad 8:43-44

A'isha bint Abi Bakr as-Siddiq ibn Abi Quhafa

Her mother was Umm Ruman bint 'Umayr of Kinana.

Ibn ' Abbas said, "The Messenger of Allah asked Abu Bakr for A'isha's hand and Abu Bakr said, 'Messenger of Allah, she has been promised to Jubayr, Mu'tim ibn 'Adi's son. Let me secure her release from them.' He did that and then she married the Messenger of Allah, and she was a virgin."

A'isha said, "The Messenger of Allah married me in Shawwal of the tenth year of prophethood, three years before the hijra. I was six. The Messenger of Allah emigrated and reached Madina on Tuesday the 12th of the month of Rabi" al-Awwal. We had a wedding in Shawwal on the eighth month of hijra and I was nine at that time."

A'isha said, "The Messenger of Allah married me while I was playing with the girls. I did not know that the Messenger of Allah had married me until my mother took me and made me sit in the room rather than being outside. Then it occurred to me that I was married. I did not ask her and my mother was the one who told me."

A'isha said, "The Messenger of Allah married me when I was six and consummated the marriage when I was nine. He came in while I was playing with dolls with the girls. When he came in, my friends would withdraw from him and slip out. The Messenger of Allah would go out and bring them back to me."

Atiyya said, "The Messenger of Allah rule asked for the hand of A'isha bint Abi Bakr when she was a child. Abu Bakr said, 'Messenger of Allah, will you marry your brother's daughter?' He said You are my brother in the deen."

He said, "So he gave her in marriage to him for some household goods which were worth about dirhams. Her nurse came to her while she was playing with the girls and took her hand and brought her to the house and tidied her and took veil with her and brought her to the Messenger of Allah."

A'isha said, "The Messenger of Allah married me when I was six and consummated the marriage when I was nine. I was playing on a see-saw and had become dishevelled. I was playing on it and I was taken and prepared and then brought in to him. He was shown my picture in silk.

Abdullah ibn Abdullah ibn Ubayd ibn 'Umayr said, "The Messenger of Allah was so grieved about Khadija that people feared for him, until he married A'isha."

It is related from Abu 'Ubayda that the Prophet married A`isha when she was seven years old and consummated the marriage when she was nine and died when she was 18.

A'isha said, "The Messenger of Allah married me in Shawwal and consummated the marriage with me in Shawwal. Which of his wives is more fortunate than me?" She used to like it for women to have their marriage consummated in Shawwal.

Abu 'Asim said, ""People disliked to consummate marriage with women in Shawwal. The plague occurred in Shawwal for the first time.

A'isha said, The Prophet married me when was seven and consummated the marriage with me when was nine. I used to play dolls with my friends. When he came and they were with us, the Prophet would say to us, 'Stay where you are.'"

A'isha said, "The Messenger of Allah came in to me one day while I was playing with dolls. He said, "What is this, "A'isha?' I said, 'The horses of Sulayman.' He laughed.'

A'isha was asked, "When did the Messenger of Allah consummate the marriage with you?" She said, "When the Messenger of Allah emigrated to Madina, we and his daughters stayed behind. When he reached Madina, he sent Zayd ibn Haritha and Abu Rafi his clien, to fetch us.