Madam Aishah, a Study of her age at the time of her marriage with Prophet Muhammad

Historical Fact 8. The date of the death of Aishah:

Most historians (though not all) agree that Aishah passed away when she was 67 years old. Moreover, Hisham ibn Urwah (763 CE), the grandson of Aishah’s sister Asma, gave the date of her death as 50 AH/672 CE.¹⁴

Khalifa ibn al-Khayyat al-Usfuri (854 CE), an authority on lineage and biography, and Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal (855 CE) also tell us that Aishah breathed her last in 50 AH/672 CE.

The importance of this date cannot be underestimated. If she was 67 years old in 50 AH/672 CE, then at the time of the Hijrah in 622 she must have been 17 years old (and born in 605 CE); this again backs up the conclusion that she was 19 at the time of her marriage in 2 AH/624 CE, and not 9.

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14. ‘Siyar-u-Alam-an-Nubala’ by al-Dhahabi, Vol 11, pp.11-12.