A Review of Aisha's Age when Marrying the Prophet

One of the prophet's marriages was his marriage to Aisha the daughter of Abi Bakr. Historians and non-Shi'ite scholars mainly believe that she was six or seven years old when she married the Prophet of God while she was a virgin. Some Shia scholars also believe that she married the Prophet, she was a virgin. The very claims made by Shiite and non-Shiite historians about the age of Aisha have become a means of abuse against the Prophet, and so some of the enemies of Islam, bringing forth various kinds of slanders and misconceptions, try to portray the particularly outstanding characteristic of the Supreme Prophet as sexual. A close study of history shows that Aisha's age was far more than six or seven years old when the prophet married her, and according to some reports, she had a marriage contract with Jobayr ibn Mot’am before marrying the Prophet and after getting a divorce from him, she became the Prophet's wife. This research attempts to examine Aisha's age according to historical sources and identify the causes and motivations behind claiming that Aisha was very young when she married.