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يقول الدكتور شون أنثوني في كتابه Muhammad and the empires of faith الصفحة 189
(('A'ishah's age at the consummation of her marriage has been the source of much modern controversy, but the assertion that she was six years old when betrothed and nine years old when the marriage was consummated is unanimously attested in traditions attributed to her nephew 'Urwah and the Medinan scholar In Shihäb al-Zuhri.35
Although pre-pubertal marriage was not the norm in either Roman or Late Antiquity, it is attested in some populations of the era, especially those outside urban centers. Roman and, subsequently, Byzantine law forbade the marriage of pre-pubertal girls (defined as girls under the age of twelve or thirteen, respectively),36 but this in no way eliminated pre-pubertal marriages entirely.32 Jewish and Islamic law were, by contrast, far more permissive of men contracting and consummating marriages to pre-pubertal females 38 Based on the available data, it appears that'A'ishah's age at her first marriage was not an extreme outlier in the seventh-century Hijãz. ))