Few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage:
“The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)” (Bukhari 7.62.88).
Another tradition has Aisha herself recount the scene:
The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became all right, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, “Best wishes and Allah’s Blessing and a good luck.” Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah’s Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age. (Bukhari 5.58.234).
Muhammad was at this time fifty-four years old.
Marrying young girls was not all that unusual for its time, but because in Islam Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this unto today. And so in April 2011, the Bangladesh Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini declared that those trying to pass a law banning child marriage in that country were putting Muhammad in a bad light: “Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the holy prophet of Islam, [putting] the moral character of the prophet into controversy and challenge.” He added a threat: “Islam permits child marriage and it will not be tolerated if any ruler will ever try to touch this issue in the name of giving more rights to women.” The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage.
Likewise the influential website Islamonline.com in December 2010 justified child marriage by invoking not only Muhammad’s example, but the Qur’an as well:
The Noble Qur’an has also mentioned the waiting period [i.e. for a divorced wife to remarry] for the wife who has not yet menstruated, saying: “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” [Qur’an 65:4]. Since this is not negated later, we can take from this verse that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a prepubescent girl. The Qur’an is not like the books of jurisprudence which mention what the implications of things are, even if they are prohibited. It is true that the prophet entered into a marriage contract with A’isha when she was six years old, however he did not have sex with her until she was nine years old, according to al-Bukhari.
Other countries make Muhammad’s example the basis of their laws regarding the legal marriageable age for girls. Article 1041 of the Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran states that girls can be engaged before the age of nine, and married at nine: “Marriage before puberty (nine full lunar years for girls) is prohibited. Marriage contracted before reaching puberty with the permission of the guardian is valid provided that the interests of the ward are duly observed.”
According to Amir Taheri in The Spirit of Allah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution (pp. 90-91), Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini himself married a ten-year-old girl when he was twenty-eight. Khomeini called marriage to a prepubescent girl “a divine blessing,” and advised the faithful to give their own daughters away accordingly: “Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house.” When he took power in Iran, he lowered the legal marriageable age of girls to nine, in accord with Muhammad’s example.
“This 13-year-old girl has been forced to marry her 56-year-old Teacher in Kano (Photo),” Ynaija.com, December 24, 2016 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
A Qur’anic School teacher in Kurna Babban Layi area of Kano has perfected plans to marry off his 13-year-old daughter, Bilkisu, to his 56-year-old friend.
The revelation was made by a relative of the teenager who raised the alarm on Saturday when she took the teenager to Freedom Radio office in Sharada, Kano for a media campaign against the marriage.
According to Daily Nigerian, the teary-eyed teenager revealed that she does not love the man, saying she always cried whenever the matter was mentioned.
The relative, who pleaded not to be named, said she is calling for authorities, especially Kano State governor and Emir of Kano, to intervene and abort the marriage, billed to hold Friday next week.
She said she was concerned about the kind of life the girl would live if she married a man who has three wives and many grown up children.
“The groom has three wives, many children and grandchildren. I am appealing to Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi and governor of Kano to help intervene,” he said.
She also disclosed that the father planned to marry off Bilkisu’s sister of almost the same age on the same day.

David Lee says
Merry Christmas and best wishes to you and all your loved ones Robert.
David says
Idiots it’s common in many countries not just Muslim ones learn to research dumbfuck hell it was common in the us till the 60’s and still legal in many states
David says
Info is out there I can understand why before the net people didn’t look things up that took thinking and work but now it’s just a click away
harbidoll says
True, there are perverts in every country but only Islam makes something even animals dont do– try to mate with a female that isnt in heat – yet!, into a holy ritual!!. Only Islams prophet does this himself.& tells others to do it also. (The excuse is she might loose her virginity to someone else before he gets to her.) Male Selfishness is one of the 3 pillars of Islam.
eur says
Female genital mutilation is also transreligious and African, it is cultural (puajj). But only in Islam is accepted, Muhammad gave his approval to maim a girl, that feels jurisprudence in Islam, is sunna. It has not been nor is it usual in many Islamic areas .. but orthodox .. is halal. The Salafists demand it and no one can deny that it is Islamic if Muhammad gave his approval. With pedophilia the same happens, it is something pre-Islamic, it is something trans religious .. typical of ancient societies, barbarian, tribal, pastoral societies without civilization. Only Islam collects it in his books, pedophilia is halal.
Angemon says
Pedophilia is halal in islam.
maghan says
But the arrant stupidity and self-degradation of black-slave Muslims in Africa and elsewhere is often to be marveled at. Just because a ravenous Arab desert bandit ravished–he “thighed” her until she was 9 years–a 6 year old child under color of “marriage” does not make it right–and a thing for others to follow.
These brainwashed “raisin heads” will never learn. The human brain is a strange organ. These dumb abds certainly know how to recite the Qur’an but they are not smart enough to discern that it is a load of cruel and nonsensical bunk–all made up by a lying conman. There are hundreds of religions in Africa, yet the fools choose the one founded by an Arab rapist and murderer.
Ross Lloyd says
Pedophilia just fine and dandy with the main stream media as long as it’s by Moslems!
Pr126 says
How much did he get for her?
harbidoll says
thats why they shoved gay marriage thru the courts, cuz polygamy was next. Polygamy is girl slavery! as females become fewer in number thanks to sex selection abortion which Everyone uses. Parents will SELL their their girls for big money!!
Lee Hicks says
Textbook Islam, going back to Mohammad. This IS Islam.
Lesley says
Monster 🙁 ! I pray safety for this poor child.
Troybeam says
!3 years old and that 56 year old male will likely kill her with forced sex and if that does not kill her child birth most likely will, Islam is a crime against humanity the sooner people understand that the sooner people will fight against it and remove it from any nation.
Rolf Wittwer says
Due to islamic infiltration of many U.N. Organisations, nothing have been reached in this regard.
Education in Nigeria and many overpopulated Countries remain extremly poor and backward orientated.
In Northern Nigeria it is still common for men, to have up to 4 wifes, which do not have many rights. Except to function as Babymachines. Even it’s not unusual to many women, to give birth at least every year of one.The whole attention of mothers is spent always only just to the new-born baby. Other children often are left alone under the “help yourself” strategy. Familyplanning is “haram”. Look the figures of all the overpopulated Countries – most are islamic.
Under this so called “religion” nothing will change, but yes, it will change – to the worst.
eur says
Tribalism, ignorance, religious fanaticism, overpopulation, pride of being ignorant .. Islam leads social chaos wherever it goes. In the West is bringing the end of social peace and the beginning of a civil war.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
mr spencer, I checked hadiths no. 7.62.88 and 5.58.234 IN THE BOOK OF BUKHARI IN ITS ORIGINAL ARABIC VERSION,BUT NO WHERE AISHA’S AGE OF 6 AND 9 IS MENTIONED.WHERE DID YOU GET THESE NUMBERS?FROM YOUR IMAGINATION?ALL WHAT IS THERE IN THESE HADITHS ARE THAT THE PROPHET CONTRACTED MARRIAGE BEFORE MATURITY AND CONSUMATED THE MARRIAGE WHEN SHE REACHED THE AGE OF MATURITY.AGE OF MATURITY IS NOT FIXED.IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHETHER THE GIRLS NATURAL DESIRES FULLY FUNCTION, LIKE THE SIGNS OF PUBIC HAIR, MENSES, BREAST. THUS, ISLAM WILL NOT USE FIXED AGE OF SAY 18 AS IN MOST WESTERN NATIONS,WHERE GIRLS EXPERIENCE SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE.IN FACT THE MITHRAIST EVIL BIBLE SAYS PARENTS CAN DIP THEIR FINGERS INTO THE VAGINAS OF THEIR DAUGHTERS TO TASTES IF IT LIKE WINE.LOOK AT THIS SAVAGERY.IT IS THERE IF YOU CARE TO CHECK.YOU CANNOT ERASE IT AS EVIL JEWS USED TO DO WITH THEIR SCIPTURES.CHRISTIANS ARE PEOPLE OF LIES. THE 13 YEAR NIGERIAN GIRL MUST BE FULLY MATURED AT THAT AGE.LET THEM ASK THE DOCTOR TO CONFIRM AS IT IS ALLOWED UNDER SHARIA.
Dave says
Son of a pig
sis Petra says
Parents dip?Tast like wine? You must be out of your mind.
Which sick person has told you this lie ?
Where in the Bible is it written – give scripture !
ibrahim itace muhammed says
dave,you are the son of prostitute produced at baby factory with rotten vagina and foreskin full of maggots.look at you with baboon’s shape like devil trump
Rolf Wittwer says
ibr.itace muhd.
Sorry to say, that people with “character” like you, are adding more intolerance, hate and low level backward development to our planet. You must have been in a certain way, very very frustrated because of something. If it is religion, than better change it. You won’t’ be the only one. Must be Millions among them, but they are not allowed to questionning anything due to men-made (Not women) harsh Quran.
And: Why the hell, is it practically impossible, to discuss with most of Muslims in a fair way, without facing any kind of aggressive behavior of psychic and/or physical nature – as you’re proofing it in a negative way!
ibrahim itace muhammed says
sis petra,read carefully deuteronomy 22:13-18 and song of songs 7:1-9;8:1-3,that the father can dip his fingers into his daughers’s vagina and her biological brother to have sex with her to taste if it is like wine. according to exodus 21:7-8 the father can even sell his daughter.again, according to leviticus 20:21 the father can marry off his 3 year old daughter.so, it is your evil bible that encourages abuse on minor girls,not islam.but, christian west are not satistify with the dictates of their scriptures because their god is defeated or dead, they dont comply with biblical injunctions,they use man-made injunctions.
Barbie Yelraf says
Are you totally insane? What bible are you reading? Not one single verse you quote above has anything to do with your vile interpretations. You are a sick and twisted person. May the one true God open your eyes.