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Aisha bint Abi Bakr (RA)

عائشة بنت أبي بكر

d. 57 or 58 AH / 678 CE date disputed · wife (Umm al-Mu'minin)

Daughter of Abu Bakr and one of the Prophet's most beloved wives, whose innocence was declared by the Quran (24:11-26). She was among the greatest scholars and narrators of hadith, and the Prophet ﷺ died in her apartment.

Biography

Aisha married the Prophet ﷺ in Makkah and moved into his household in Madinah. During the expedition of Banu al-Mustaliq she was slandered (the incident of al-Ifk); Allah revealed her innocence in Surah al-Nur (24:11-26), as she narrates in Sahih Bukhari. The Prophet ﷺ named her as the most beloved of people to him (Sahih Bukhari, Amr ibn al-As) and spent his final illness in her apartment, where he is buried.

She narrated over two thousand hadith and was consulted by senior companions on fiqh. In 36 AH she went to Basra with Talhah and al-Zubayr seeking retribution for Uthman, leading to the Battle of the Camel against Ali; reports describe her later regret, and Ali sent her back to Madinah with honour. Her age at marriage, reported in Sahih Bukhari as six at contract and nine at consummation, is accepted by classical scholars; some modern writers dispute it using historical calculations. This dataset reports the Sahih narration and notes the modern debate.

Sources & explanation

۞ Qur'an

24:11 24:12 24:16 24:17 24:23 24:26 33:6 33:28 33:33 66:4

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📜 Hadith verified on sunnah.com

  • Sahih al-Bukhari 3818 Sahih

    Aisha said she was never as jealous of any wife as of Khadijah, because the Prophet ﷺ remembered her so often.

  • Sahih al-Bukhari 2593 Sahih

    Sawdah bint Zam'ah gave her day and night to Aisha.

  • Sahih al-Bukhari 3770 Sahih

    'The superiority of Aisha over other women is like the superiority of tharid over other food.'

  • Sahih al-Bukhari 3769 Sahih

    The Prophet ﷺ told Aisha that Jibril was sending her greetings of peace.

  • Sahih al-Bukhari 5134 Sahih

    Aisha's age at marriage as narrated in Bukhari (six at the contract, nine at consummation). This is the text of the report; its interpretation and age calculations are discussed by scholars.

  • Sahih al-Bukhari 3662 Sahih

    'Amr ibn al-'As asked who was most beloved to the Prophet ﷺ: 'Aisha'; among men: 'her father (Abu Bakr)', then 'Umar.

  • Sahih al-Bukhari 4827 Sahih

    Marwan, governor of Hijaz for Mu'awiyah, urged allegiance to Yazid; 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr objected, and Aisha rejected Marwan's claim that 46:17 was revealed about him.

💬 Explanation Unverified

Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza's perspective

Methodological note (not a direct quote): Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza's widely known approach is to build narratives primarily on the Quran and Sahih Hadith, to set aside Israiliyat (Judeo-Christian lore absorbed into later tafsir) and weak or fabricated narrations, and to avoid sectarian framing. Applied to this node: Her innocence is a Quranic certainty (24:11-26); the Camel episode is presented as a tragic error amid fitnah without disrespect to her status as a Mother of the Believers.

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Further references

  • Quran 24:11-26
  • Sahih Bukhari (hadith of al-Ifk)
  • Sahih Bukhari (most beloved: Aisha)
  • Sahih Bukhari (age at marriage)

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