The response to the doubt about the Prophet’s marriage, may God bless him and grant him peace, to Aisha, may God be pleased with them both, when she was six years old and his consummation of the marriage when she was nine years old

 Although this topic has been debunked in my discord but still im gonna improve it

Sahih al-Bukhari, Part Seven
, 3681. Furwah ibn Abi al-Mughra’ narrated to me, Ali ibn Musahhar narrated to us, on the authority of Hisham, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, who said: The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, married me when I was six years old. We went to Madinah and stayed with Banu al-Harith ibn Khazraj. I fell ill and my hair fell out and became very limp. My mother, Umm Ruman, came to me while I was on a swing with some of my friends. She cried out at me, so I went to her, not knowing what she wanted with me. She took my hand until she stopped me at the door of the house, and I was panting until some of my breath calmed down. Then she took some water and wiped my face and head with it. Then she brought me into the house, and there were some women from the Ansar in the house. They said: “On goodness and blessings and on good birds.” So I handed me over to them, and they put my affairs in order. I was not startled until the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came in the morning, so she handed me over. To him, and I was nine years old at that time

. To respond to this doubt, we say:

Marriage at such an age at that time was known and customary to everyone. In fact, it is known today that women in hot regions reach puberty at a young age. However, you will find a group of enemies of religion from among the Christians denying this and criticizing the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, saying that he married a child!!!

This is a lie, and we will respond, God willing, from four aspects:

First: This type of marriage existed in the pre-Islamic era and was widespread and not reprehensible.

Second: This type of marriage exists and is legislated in the Jewish heritage and customs.

Third: Christian sources mention the young age of Mary when she married Joseph the carpenter.

Fourth: This type of marriage existed in Christian countries without denial

. Fifth: Scientific facts indicate that females reach puberty at an early age in hot regions .

First: The prevalence of this type of marriage in the pre-Islamic era among the Arabs, and no one denounced it.

There are many indications of the acceptance of marriage of young girls and boys, including:

1. That the Mother of the Believers Aisha, may God be pleased with her, was engaged to Jubair ibn Mut’im, may God be pleased with him, before her marriage to the Prophet , may God bless him and grant him peace.
We read in the Biographies of the Nobles by Imam Al-Dhahabi, may God have mercy on him, Part One:
((And Abdullah ibn Idris said, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Amr, on the authority of Yahya ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Hattab, who said: Aisha, may God be pleased with her, said: When Khadija died, Khawlah bint Hakim came to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and said: Why don’t you marry? He said: “And who?” She said: If you want a virgin, and if you want a widow. He said: “Who is the virgin and who is the widow?” She said: As for the virgin, then Aisha is the daughter of the most beloved of God’s creation to you . As for the widow, then she is Sawda bint Zam’a, who believed in you and followed you. He said: “Mention them to me.” She said: So I went to Umm Ruman and said: O Umm Ruman, what good has God brought upon you? Blessings! She said: What? She said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) mentioned Aisha. She said: Wait, for Abu Bakr is coming. So Abu Bakr came and I mentioned that to him. He said: Is she suitable for him, and she is his brother’s daughter? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: I am his brother and he is my brother, and his daughter is suitable for me. She said: Abu Bakr got up, and Umm Ruman said to me: Al-Mut’im ibn Adi mentioned her in reference to his son, and by Allah he never broke a promise, meaning Abu Bakr.She said: Abu Bakr came to Al-Mut'am and said: What do you say about this girl? She said: He turned to his wife and said to her: What do you say? She turned to Abu Bakr and said: Perhaps if we marry this young man to you, you will convert him and bring him into your religion. Abu Bakr turned to him and said: What do you say? He said: She says what you hear. Abu Bakr got up and had no intention of making a promise, so he said to her: Tell the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, to come. So the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came and took possession of her. She said: Then I went to Sawdah bint Zam'a, and her father was an old man who had stopped performing the Hajj pilgrimage. I greeted him with the greeting of the people of the Jahiliyyah and said: Good morning. He said: Who are you? I said: Khawlah bint Hakim. He welcomed me and said what Allah willed him to say. I said: Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abdul Muttalib mentioning Sawdah bint Zam'a. He said: A suitable and generous man. What does your companion say? I said: You like that. He said: Tell him to come. She said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came and took possession of her. She said: Abd ibn Zam’ah came and began to throw dirt on his head. After he had become Muslim, he said: I am foolish when I throw dirt on my head because the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, married Sawdah. Its chain of transmission is good .
Sheikh Shu’ayb al-Arna’ut also classified its chain of transmission as good in his Takhreej of Siyar A’lam al-Nubala’, Part One, and he said: “ Its chain of transmission is good .”

There is a benefit in the hadith:
Khawlah bint Hakim is the one who went and proposed marriage to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, to Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, and she did not see any difficulty in her young age, which indicates that this marriage was known among the Arabs before Islam as well .

2. The difference between Abdullah bin Amr and his father is eleven years, as narrated (and I will come to this point again).
We read from the Biographies of the Nobles by Imam Al-Dhahabi,
may God have mercy on him, Part Three: ((Abdullah bin Amr bin Al-Aas (peace be upon him), son of Wael bin Hashim bin Saeed bin Saad bin Sahm bin Amr bin Hisais bin Kaab bin Luay bin Ghalib.
The imam, the learned worshipper, the companion of the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - and the son of his companion, Abu Muhammad, and it was said: Abu Abdul Rahman. And it was said: Abu Nasir Al-Qurashi Al-Sahmi.
And his mother is Ra’itah bint Al-Hajjaj bint Munabbih Al-Sahmiyyah, and his father is only eleven years older than him or so .))

3. What was narrated from Al-Hasan bin Saleh that he had a neighbor who was 21 years old and she was also a grandmother!!
Imam Al-Bukhari, may God have mercy on him, mentioned it in the fifth part:
((Chapter on the puberty of boys and their testimony and the saying of God Almighty: “And when the children among you reach puberty, let them ask permission.” Mughirah said: I had a wet dream when I was twelve years old. And the puberty of women during menstruation is due to the saying of God Almighty: “And those of your women who have despaired of menstruation” until His saying: “that they should give birth.” And Al-Hasan bin Salih said: I met a neighbor of ours, a grandmother of twenty-one years old. ”))

4. What was narrated that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, married his daughters at a young age.
We will give two examples of that:
1. Zainab, the daughter of the Prophet, may God bless him and
grant him peace . We read in the Great Classes of Ibn Saad the biography of Zainab, the daughter of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace
: ((She is his eldest daughter. She was born when the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was thirty years old and she died in the eighth year during the life of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. Her mother was Khadija bint Khuwaylid bin Aslam.)) That is, when the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, was sent, she was ten years old. It is known that she married Abu Al-Aas before the mission.




And the evidence from the beginning of the end by Ibn Kathir, may God have mercy on him, Part Five:
((Ibn Ishaq said: Abu al-Aas was one of the men of Mecca who were counted in wealth, honesty, and trade, and his mother was Hala bint Khuwaylid, the sister of Khadija bint Khuwaylid, and it was Khadija who asked the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, to marry him to her daughter Zainab, and he did not disobey her, and that was before the revelation )
meaning Zainab married Abu al-Aas bin al-Rabi’ when she was less than ten years old.

2. The marriage of Ruqayyah, the daughter of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, to Utbah bin Abi Lahab when she was young.
We read in the book Al-Isti’ab fi Ma’rifat al-Ashab by Ibn Abd al-Barr:
((Abu Omar said: I do not know of any disagreement that Zainab was the eldest of his daughters, may God bless him and grant him peace. And there was disagreement about who came after her from them; Abu al-Abbas Muhammad bin Ishaq al-Sarraj mentioned, he said: I heard Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Sulayman bin Ja’far bin Sulayman al-Hashemi, he said : Zainab, the daughter of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was born when the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was Thirty years old, and Ruqayyah, the daughter of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was born, and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was thirty-three years old.
Mus`ab and other genealogists said: Ruqayyah was married to Utbah ibn Abi Lahab, and her sister Umm Kulthum was married to Utaybah ibn Abi Lahab. When the verse {May the hands of Abu Lahab perish} was revealed, their father Abu Lahab and their mother Hamalat al-Hatab said to them: Leave the two daughters of Muhammad . Abu Lahab said: My head is forbidden to you if you do not leave the two daughters of Muhammad. So they left them.))

Meaning that Ruqayyah was seven years old when the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was sent
, and it is known that she married Utbah ibn Abi Lahab, may Allah be pleased with him, before the mission.

And we read in Al-Isabah fi Tamyiz Al-Sahabah by Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani:
((Abu Omar said: I do not know of any disagreement that Zainab was the eldest daughter of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. There was disagreement about Ruqayyah, Fatimah, and Umm Kulthum, and most of them are in this order. Abu Omar narrated from Al-Jurjani that it was authentic that Ruqayyah was the youngest of them, and it was said: Fatimah was the youngest of them, and Ruqayyah was first with Utbah ibn Abi Lahab, and when the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, was sent, Abu Lahab ordered his son to divorce her, so Uthman married her .))

So Ruqayyah, may God be pleased with her, married Utbah ibn Abi Lahab when she was before the age of seven and she was divorced after the revelation of Surat Al-Masad in the third or fourth year of the mission, then she married Uthman, may God be pleased with him, so
her age at the time of the divorce and the marriage to Uthman, may God be pleased with him, was approximately 10 or 11 years.

Second: The existence of child marriage in Jewish heritage and customs :

There is almost a consensus in Jewish sources on the marriage of children, but they differed among themselves on the minimum age for marriage:

1. Some of them said that the age of puberty and marriage in Judaism is 12 years :
We read from the Jewish Encyclopedia:
Some urge that children should marry as soon as they reach the age of puberty, i.e., the fourteenth year (Sanh. 76b); and R. Ḥisda attributed his mental superiority to the)) fact that he was married when he was but sixteen years old (Ḳid. l.c.). It was, however, strictly forbidden for parents to give their children in marriage before they had reached the age of puberty (Sanh. 76b). A man who, without any reason, refused to marry after he had passed his twentieth year was frequently compelled to do so by the court. To be occupied with the study of the Torah was regarded as a plausible reason for delaying marriage; but only in very rare instances was a man permitted to remain in celibacy all his life (Yeb. 63b; Maimonides, "Yad," Ishut, xv. 2, 3; Shulḥan 'Aruk, Eben ha-'Ezer, 1, 1-4; see Celibacy).....Minors (i.e., such as have not reached the age of puberty, which was held to begin at thirteen years in males, and twelve in females), are also precluded from contracting marriages (see Majority). A daughter who was a minor could be given in marriage by her father; and such a marriage was valid. In the case of her father's death, her mother or her brothers could give her in marriage, subject to her confirmation or annulment on her reaching the age of puberty(see Mi'un). A marriage contracted under certain conditions was valid when the conditions were fulfilled. The conditions had to be formulated in accordance with the general laws governing conditions (see Conditions).))
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/ar...-marriage-laws

2. و منهم من صرح ان حد البلوغ و الزواج للمراة هو ثلاث سنوات و اجازوا ان يدخل بها زوجها بعد سن الثالثة و استشدوا على ذلك بان رفقة كان عمرها ثلاث سنوات حينما تزوجت من اسحاق عليه الصلاة و السلام !! .
نقرا من تلمود سنهدرين 55 ب :
(( Rav Yosef says: Come and hear a resolution from a mishna (Nidda 44b): A girl who is three years and one day old whose father arranged her betrothal is betrothed with intercourse, as the legal status of intercourse with her is that of full-fledged intercourse. And in a case where the childless husband of a girl who is three years and one day old dies, if his brother, the yavam, engages in intercourse with her, he acquires her as his wife; and if she is married, a man other than her husband is liable for engaging in intercourse with her due to the prohibition of intercourse with a married woman.))
https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.55b.3-4?lang=en

و نقرا من تسير الراباي راشي لسفر التكوين 25: 20
((forty years old: For when Abraham came from Mount Moriah, he was informed that Rebecca had been born. Isaac was then thirty-seven years old, for at that time Sarah died, and from the time that Isaac was born until the “Binding” [of Isaac], when Sarah died, were thirty-seven years, for she was ninety years old when Isaac was born, and one hundred and twenty-seven when she died, as it is stated (above 23:1): “The life of Sarah was [a hundred and twenty seven years.”] This makes Isaac thirty-seven years old, and at that time, Rebecca was born. He waited for her until she would be fit for marital relations-three years-and then married her. — [From Gen. Rabbah 57:1)
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible...showrashi/true

و اختلفوا في امر الذكور فمنهم من صرح ان الصبي اذا بلغ التاسعة جاز له ان يجامع زوجته ان كان متزوجا :
نقرا من تلمود سنهدرين 54 ب :
((The Gemara asks: What does it mean that the Torah does not deem a younger boy to be like an older boy? Rav says:It means that the Torah does not deem the intercourse of one who is less than nine years old to be like the intercourse of one who is at least nine years old, as for a male’s act of intercourse to have the legal status of full-fledged intercourse the minimum age is nine years. And Shmuel says: The Torah does not deem the intercourse of a child who is less than three years old to be like that of one who is three years old. ))
https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.54...h=all&lang2=en

3. و عارض الرايين السابقين فرقة ذهبت الى جواز التزوج من الصغير او الصغيرة الذي او التي قاربت البلوغ و لم تبلغ بعد
نقرا من تلمود سنهدرين 76 ب :
The Gemara raises an objection to one element of the ruling of Rav from a baraita: One who loves his wife as he loves himself, and who esteems her by giving her clothing and jewelry more than he esteems himself, and one who instructs his sons and daughters to follow an upright path, and who marries them to appropriate spouses adjacent to their reaching puberty, ensures that his home will be devoid of quarrel and sin. Concerning him the verse states: “And you shall know that your tent is in peace; and you shall visit your habitation and shall miss nothing” (Job 5:24). The baraita indicates that it is a mitzva to marry one’s children to appropriate spouses while they are young, contrary to the statement of Rav that one who takes a wife for his minor son causes sin. The Gemara replies: Adjacent to their reaching puberty is different from marrying her to a minor, as there is no concern that his daughter will sin during the brief period until her husband reaches puberty. The Sages taught: One who loves his neighbors, and one who brings his relatives close, and one who marries the daughter of his sister, an example of a woman that he knows and likes before taking her as his wife, and one who lends a sela to a poor man at his time of need, when he has no alternative source of funds, with regard to each of them the verse states: “Break your bread for the hungry, and the poor that are cast out bring to your house; when you see the naked, you shall clothe him, and hide not yourself from your own flesh…then shall you call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and He will say: Here I am” (Isaiah 58:7–9).
https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.76b.2-4?lang=en

We have two important examples from the Holy Bible in this :

1. The young female slaves who were taken captive by the children of Israel .
We read in the Book of Numbers, Chapter 31:
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and every woman who has known man by lying with him, kill her.
18 But all the little ones among the women who have not known man, keep alive for yourselves .

The Church Encyclopedia for the Interpretation of the Old Testament, an explanation of each verse, Part Three, Page 267:
Moses ordered the leaders of his army to kill all the male children who, when they grew up, would become men who would resist the people and might be affected by what happened to their fathers, as well as all the non-virgin women, some of whom had been polluted by the previous seduction of the children of Israel, in addition to the fact that they… They bore the feeling of revenge for their husbands, but the children, the girls and the virgin girls, Moses kept them as captives and gifts for his men .

و نقرا من تفاسير الكتاب المقدس :
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 18. - Keep alive for yourselves,i.e., for domestic slaves in the first instance. Subsequently no doubt many of them became inferior wives of their masters, or were married to their sons. Infants were probably put to death with their mothers.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
But all the women children,.... The females among the little ones:
that have not known a man by lying with him; which might be pretty clear, and easily concluded, from their age:
keep for yourselves; either to be handmaids to them, or to be married among them when grown up, and become proselytes, and initiated into their religion.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
(18) Keep alive for yourselves.—The Israelites were allowed to make slaves of their captives. Shortly after the capture of these Midianitish women, and, it may be, as arising out of it, the law concerning marriage with captives was enacted.

https://biblehub.com/commentaries/numbers/31-18.htm

2. حسب تفاسير الكتاب المقدس آحاز تزوج وهو ابن 10 سنين، وأنجب وهو ابن 11 سنة .
نقرا من سفر الملوك الثاني 16:
1 فِي السَّنَةِ السَّابِعَةَ عَشْرَةَ لِفَقْحَ بْنِ رَمَلْيَا، مَلَكَ آحَازُ بْنُ يُوثَامَ مَلِكِ يَهُوذَا.
2 كَانَ آحَازُ ابْنَ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً حِينَ مَلَكَ، وَمَلَكَ سِتَّ عَشَرَةَ سَنَةً فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ. وَلَمْ يَعْمَلِ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ فِي عَيْنَيِ الرَّبِّ إِلهِهِ كَدَاوُدَ أَبِيهِ،

و نقرا من سفر الملوك الثاني 18:1 وَفِي السَّنَةِ الثَّالِثَةِ لِهُوشَعَ بْنِ أَيْلَةَ مَلِكِ إِسْرَائِيلَ مَلَكَ حَزَقِيَّا بْنُ آحَازَ مَلِكِ يَهُوذَا.
2 كَانَ ابْنَ خَمْسٍ وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةً حِينَ مَلَكَ، وَمَلَكَ تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةً فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَاسْمُ أُمِّهِ أَبِي ابْنَةُ زَكَرِيَّا.

و لدفع هذا التناقض يقول منيس عبد النور في كتابه شبهات وهمية حول الكتاب المقدس الصفحة 167 :
(( لا مانع ان يكون بينه و بين ابيه 11 سنة . قال ابو محمد : (( كان بين عبد الله وبين ابيه عمرو بن العاص 12 سنة )) و اعاد ابن قتيبة هذا الكلام ثانية في كتاب المعارف فيكون مثل الفرق بين حزقيا و احاز ابنه فان 12 سنة هجرية تساوي 11 سنة شمسية و حدث اسحاق بن راهويه عن صالح : (( كانت لنا جارية بنت 21 سنة وهي جدة ))))
file:///Users/MacbookPro/Downloads/14- شبهات وهمية حول الكتاب المقدس- [christianlib.com].pdf

We read from the first volume of the Scriptural Dictionary, page 4:
((His life and reign: There is a problem with the dates mentioned in (2 Chronicles 28:1, 2 Kings 16:2) where we understand that Ahaz died at the age of thirty-six, while we read in 2 Chronicles (29:1) that his son Hezekiah took the throne at the age of twenty-five after the death of his father Ahaz, which means that Ahaz was eleven years old when Hezekiah was born . (And in the Septuagint version of 2 Kings 16:2 it is stated that Ahaz reigned at the age of twenty years, while we find in 2 Chronicles 28:1 that he was twenty-five years old, and there is much evidence supporting the older age mentioned in the Septuagint version of the Book of Chronicles) but the young age - in any case - is not impossible since we find in the East children at an early age, less than ten - marrying, and most of the kings of this era were born while their fathers were in the middle or late second decade ))

And also Antonius Fikry says in his interpretation of the Second Book of Kings, Chapter 16:
((Ahaz = his name was Jehoahaz and the writer of the book deprived him of the name Jehovah because he did not deserve it. We note in verse 2 that Ahaz was 20 years old when he became king and he reigned for 16 years, so he was 36 years old when he died. His son Hezekiah was 25 years old when he became king. It is not unlikely that Ahaz had Hezekiah when he was 11 years old, but by placing the verses in the following chapters and comparing them, it appears that Ahaz had Hezekiah at an older age than that (about 14 years old).))

Third: Christian sources state that Mary, peace be upon her, was 12 years old when she married Joseph the carpenter .

Our evidence for this statement is divided into two parts:
1. Gospels and apocryphal writings state that Mary, peace be upon her, was 12 years old when she married Joseph the carpenter. The purpose of this evidence is to show that some Christian sects believed that Mary, peace be upon her, was 12 years old when she married .

We read from the Apocryphal History of Joseph the Naggar:
((3. Now when righteous Joseph became a widower, my mother Mary, blessed, holy, and pure, was already twelve years old . For her 389
parents her in the temple when she was three years of age, and she remained in the temple offered the Lord nine years. Then when the priests saw that the virgin, holy and God-fearing, was growing up, they spoke to each other, saying: Let us search out a man, righteous and pious, to whom Mary may be entrusted until the time of her marriage; lest, if she remain in the temple, it happen to her as is wont to happen to women, and lest on that account we sin, and God be angry with us.
4. Therefore they immediately sent out, and assembled twelve old men of the tribe of Judah. ​​And they wrote down the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. And the lot fell upon the pious old man, righteous Joseph. Then the priests answered, and said to my blessed mother: Go with Joseph, and be with him till the time of your marriage. Righteous Joseph therefore received my mother, and led her away to his own house. And Mary found James the Less in his father's house, broken-hearted and sad on account of the loss of his mother, and she brought him up. Hence Mary was called the mother of James.1715 Thereafter Joseph left her at home, and went away to the shop where he wrought at his trade of a carpenter. And after the holy virgin had spent two years in his house her age was exactly fourteen years, including the time at which he received her.))
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf...m6y6f8vZ_D1Wvc

We read from the Apocryphal Gospel of James:
((8. And her parents went down marvelling, and praising the Lord God, because the child had not turned back. And Mary was in the temple of the Lord as if she were a dove that dwelt there, and she received food from the hand of an angel. And when she was twelve years old there was held a council of the priests, saying: Behold, Mary has reached the age of twelve years in the temple of the Lord. What then shall we do with her, lest perchance she defile the sanctuary of the Lord? And they said to the high priest: You stand by the altar of the Lord; go in, and pray concerning her; and whatever the Lord shall manifest unto you, that also will we do. And the high priest went in, taking the robe with the twelve bells into the holy of holies; and he prayed concerning her. And behold an angel of the Lord stood by him, saying unto him: Zacharias, Zacharias, go out and assemble the widowers of the people, and let them bring each his rod; and to whomsoever the Lord shall show a sign, his wife shall she be. And the heralds went out through all the circuit of Judæa, and the trumpet of the Lord sounded, and all ran.
9. And Joseph, throwing away his axe, went out to meet them; and when they had assembled, they went away to the high priest, taking with them their rods. And he, taking the rods of all of them, entered into the temple, and prayed; and having ended his prayer, he took the rods and came out, and gave them to them: but there was no sign in them, and Joseph took his rod last; and, behold, a dove came out of the rod, and flew upon Joseph's head. And the priest said to Joseph, You have been chosen by lot to take into your keeping the virgin of the Lord. But Joseph refused, saying: I have children, and I am an old man, and she is a young girl. I am afraid lest I become a laughing-stock to the sons of Israel. And the priest said to Joseph: Fear the Lord your God, and remember what the Lord did to Dathan, and Abiram, and Korah; Numbers 16:31-33 how the earth opened, and they were swallowed up on account of their contradiction. And now fear, O Joseph, lest the same things happen in your house. And Joseph was afraid, and took her into his keeping. And Joseph said to Mary: Behold, I have received you from the temple of the Lord; and now I leave you in my house, and go away to build my buildings, and I shall come to you. The Lord will protect you.))
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0847.htm

و نقرا من انجيل متى العبري الابوكريفي الفصل الثامن :
((Now it came to pass, when she was fourteen1632 years old, and on this account there was occasion for the Pharisees’ saying that it was now a custom that no woman of that ages should abide in the temple of God, they fell upon the plan of sending a herald through all the tribes of Israel, that on the third day all should come together into the temple of the Lord. And when all the people had come together, Abiathar the high priest rose, and mounted on a higher step, that he might be seen and heard by all the people; and when great silence had been obtained, he said: Hear me, O sons of Israel, and receive my words into your ears. Ever since this temple was built by Solomon, there have been in it virgins, the daughters of kings and the daughters of prophets, and of high priests and priests; and they were great, and worthy of admiration. But when they came to the proper age they were given in marriage, and followed the course of their mothers before them, and were pleasing to God. But a new order of life has been found out by Mary alone, who promises that she will remain a virgin to God. Wherefore it seems to me, that through our inquiry and the answer of God we should try to ascertain to whose keeping she ought to be entrusted. Then these words found favour with all the synagogue. And the lot was cast by the priests upon the twelve tribes, and the lot fell upon the tribe of Judah. And the priest said: To-morrow let every one who has no wife come, and bring his rod in his hand. Whence it happened that Joseph1633 brought his rod along with the young men. .......And when he was humbly standing last of all, the high priest cried out to him with a loud voice, saying: Come, Joseph, and receive thy rod; for we are waiting for thee. And Joseph came up trembling, because the high priest had called him with a very loud voice. But as soon as he stretched forth his hand, and laid hold of his rod, immediately from the top of it came forth a dove whiter than snow, beautiful exceedingly, which, after long flying about the roofs of the temple, at length flew towards the heavens. Then all the people congratulated the old man, saying: Thou hast been made blessed in thine old age, O father Joseph, seeing that God hath shown thee to be fit to receive Mary. And the priests having said to him, Take her, because of all the tribe of Judah thou alone hast been chosen by God; Joseph began bashfully to address them, saying: I am an old man, and have children; why do you hand over to me this infant, who is younger than my grandsons?))

و في الهامش نقرا :
(( 1632 Or, twelve.))

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.vii.v.ix.html

2. مصادر نصرانية تعترف بان مريم كان عمرها 12 سنة حينما تزوجت يوسف النجار .

نقرا من كتاب دائرة المعارف الكتابية الصفحة 125 :
(( الخطبة :Mary was raised in Nazareth and was probably in her twenties when she was engaged. In the History of Joseph the Carpenter (from the fourth century) it is said that she was twelve years old when she was engaged to Joseph, who was a widower in his nineties and had a large family. The biblical story assumes that he was a young man who was about to marry for the first time .

And we read from the book “Salvators Surrounded the Manger” by Anba Takla, page 9:
(( And when Mary had reached the age of twelve years and her parents had departed from this world…. then they handed the Virgin over to Joseph the elder and betrothed her to him, not so that she would be his wife and have offspring from her, but so that she would be under his care and protection ))

As for the fact that she was given to him only to raise her and not to be a wife who would bear him children, this is nothing more than a patchwork that does not rise to the level of evidence.

We read in the book Days with the Virgin, page 20:
((When the Virgin reached the age of twelve years... and when the staffs were handed over to their masters, a dove appeared from Joseph’s staff and settled on his head. So Zachariah handed Mary over to him, saying, “Take her and keep her with you that she may be your wife.” ))

We read from the book of Anba Gregory (The Virgin, Her Life, Symbols, Titles, Virtues, and Honoring) page 21:
(( The texts of the Gospel testify that Joseph was officially married to Mary and Mary was officially Joseph’s wife, even though in reality they lived together as an old man of about ninety years of age with his daughter who was a girl of twelve years of age ))

ونقرا ما قالته الموسوعة الكاثوليكية :
(( A year after his wife's death, as the priests announced through Judea that they wished to find in the tribe of Juda a respectable man to espouse Mary, then twelve to fourteen years of age. Joseph, who was at the time ninety years old, went up to Jerusalem among the candidates; a miracle manifested the choice God had made of Joseph, and two years later the Annunciation took place. These dreams, as St. Jerome styles them, from which many a Christian artist has drawn his inspiration (see, for instance, Raphael's "Espousals of the Virgin"), are void of authority; they nevertheless acquired in the course of ages some popularity; in them some ecclesiastical writers sought the answer to the well-known difficulty arising from the mention in the Gospel of "the Lord's brothers"; from them also popular credulity has, contrary to all probability, as well as to the tradition witnessed by old works of art, retained the belief that St. Joseph was an old man at the time of marriage with the Mother of God.))
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08504a.htm

و نقرا من السنكسار الاثيوبي :
And all the days of her life were sixty years; twelve years she lived in the Temple, three and thirty years she lived with Joseph, and after the Resurrection of our Lord Christ she lived for fifteen years in the house of John the evangelist,
http://www.stmichaeleoc.org/Synaxari...JJDa9kwMvHBcvs

أي أن عمر مريم وقت وفاتها كان ستين عاماً عاشت 12 سنة قضتها في الهيكل + 33 سنة مع يوسف+ 15 سنة مع يوحنا الإنجيلي أي أنها تزوجت من يوسف في الثانية عشرة من عمرها (بما أنها أقامت معه منذ تلك الفترة ) .

​​​​​​رابعا : وجود هذا النوع من الزواج في التاريخ و التشريع المسيحي .

1. انتشار هذا الزواج في المجتمع المسيحي قديما .
نقرا من كتاب الدبلة والاكليل صفحة 84 :((السن القانونية للزواج تتغير دائما مع تغيير العصور والأحوال المعيشية ففي مصر كانت السن القانونية في القرن الثالث وما قبله والتي يجوز عندها عقد الاكليل هي 14 للزوج و12 للزوجة.))

2. The Christian legislation’s permission (if we can say this expression) for this marriage .
We read from the book “The Legal Summary”, page 5, question 5:
((First, a person who has not reached the age of seven years does not have the right to own property, and he is seven years old. It is not permissible for him to marry with a crown except when he has reached the age at which marriage is permissible, as you will see in question 14 ))

We read in the fourteenth issue, page 10 of the book “The Legal Summary”:
(( When the male has passed the age of fourteen and the female has passed the age of twelve, it is permissible for them to marry, but engagement and property contracts are permissible before this age. See Issue 5))

This is a clear indication that it is permissible for a Christian to marry and be engaged to a Christian woman who is under 12 years old, and to consummate the marriage if she is over 12 years old.

3. القانون الانجليزي القديم يضع سن السابعة كادنى سن للزواج و يشترط البلوغ لحصول الجماع :
نقرا من الموسوعة البريطانية :
((In order to satisfy the requirement of a voluntary consent to a marriage, a party must have reached an age at which he or she is able to give meaningful consent, and it is also implied that a person may be legally disqualified on mental grounds from having capacity to marry. Marriages of young children, negotiated by their parents, are prohibited in most modern societies.Historically, the attitude of the English common law was that a person under seven years of age lacked the mental ability to consent to marriage, and that between seven years and puberty there could be consent but not consummation. At common law, therefore, the marriage of a person between the ages of seven and 12 or 14 was “inchoate” and would become “choate” on reaching puberty, if no objection was raised. Most modern legal systems provide for a legal minimum age of marriage ranging from 15 to 18 years)
https://www.britannica.com/topic/fam...ns-on-marriage.

4. في القرون الوسطى في اوروبا و خاصة في القرن الثاني عشر كان العرف يسمح بزواج من كان عمره اكبر من سبعة سنوات
نقرا من كتاب Adolescence, Sexuality, and the Criminal Law: Multidisciplinary Perspectives الصفحة 31
و نقرا من Encyclopedia of children an childhood in history and society
In medieval Europe, Gratian, the influential founder of Canon law in the twelfth century accepted the traditional age of puberty for marriage (between 12 and 14) but he also said consent was "meaningful" if the children were older than seven Some authorities said consent could take place earlier. Such a marriage would be permanent as long as neither party sought annulment before reaching puberty (12 for girls and 14 for boys) or if they had already consummated the marriage.))
https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-...w/age-consentr

و نقرا ايضا من Encyclopedia of children and childhood in history and society :
( The seventeenth-century lawyer Henry Swinburne distinguished between the marriages of those under seven and those between seven and puberty. He wrote that those under seven who had said their vows had to ratify it afterwards by giving kisses and embraces, by lying together, by exchanging gifts or tokens, or by calling each other husband or wife.A contemporary, Philip Stubbes, wrote that in sixteenth-century East Anglia, infants still in swaddling clothes were married The most influential legal text of the seventeenth century in England, that of Sir Edward Coke, made it clear that the marriage of girls under twelve was normal, and the age at which a girl who was a wife was eligible for a dower from her husband's estate was nine even though her husband be only four years old.))
5. American law in its early days in the seventeenth century (when America was a colony) permitted marriage to a young girl who was no more than nine years

old, and the wife had the right to ask for a divorce at that time if the husband did not consummate the marriage with his wife. We read from the Encyclopedia of children and childhood in history and society: ((The American colonies followed the English tradition but the law could at best be called a guide. For example in Virginia in 1689, Mary Hathaway was only nine when she was married to William Williams. We know of her case only because two years later she sued for divorce, and was released from the covenant she had made because the marriage had not been consummated.)) https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-...aw/age-consent This example is mentioned by the author Vern L Bullough in his book mentioned above Adolescence, Sexuality, and the Criminal Law: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on page 32 6. French law until the nineteenth century, the time of Napoleon, allowed marriage for anyone who was 13 years of age or older. Read from the Encyclopedia of children and childhood in history and society ((In the nineteenth century France issued the Napoleonic Code and many other countries, following France's example, began revising their laws. The Napoleonic Code, however, had not changed the age of consent, which remained at thirteen)) https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-...aw/age-consent​​​​​Fifth : Scientific facts indicate that the age of puberty varies among females according to influential factors . As we mentioned previously, the age of puberty among females varies according to factors including geography, climate, and race, and this variation in the age of puberty among females also appears between different countries . We read from the Encyclopedia Britannica: ((Because of genetic, environmental, and other factors, the timing of puberty varies from person to person and from country to country, but it usually occurs between ages 11 and 16. Among moderately well-off British or North American children, for example, puberty on average peaks at about age 12 for girls and age 14 for boys. However, increasing numbers of girls in those countries have started puberty by age 7 or 8. In 2010 a study of girls in three US metropolitan regions revealed that some 10.4 percent of white girls, 14.9 percent of Hispanic girls, and 23.4 percent of black girls had begun puberty by age 7.



















Generally, puberty occurs earlier in black girls, the age range in the United States being between ages 9 and 14, compared with an age range between 10 and 14 for white girls in that country . ))
https://www.britannica.com/science/puberty

European women even reach menarche later than others.
We read from the Encyclopedia:
(( Because physical maturity is linked to socioeconomic factors, ages at puberty have fluctuated from region to region and from period to period. In general, European women appear to have experienced menarche relatively late, at anywhere between fourteen and sixteen. Instances of women experiencing puberty at the age of twelve and thirteen can, of course, be found, but these cases are relatively uncommon and appear to have been regarded as highly unusual by contemporaries. ))
https://www.encyclopedia.com/interna...d-maps/puberty

We also read from a medical website that physical and nutritional conditions affect Puberty in women:
((The onset of puberty varies among individuals. Puberty usually occurs in girls between the ages of 10 and 14, while in boys it generally occurs later, between the ages of 12 and 16. In some African-American girls, puberty begins earlier, at about age 9, meaning that puberty occurs from ages 9 to 14. Adolescent girls reach puberty today at earlier ages than were ever previously recorded. Nutritional and other environmental influences may be responsible for this change . For example, the average age of the onset of menstrual periods in girls was 15 in 1900. By the 1990s, this average had dropped to 12 and a half years of age.))
https://www.medicinenet.com/puberty/article.htm

May God’s blessings and peace be upon our master Muhammad and his family  

This type of marriage existed in the pre-Islamic era and was widespread and is not condemned

because each society is judged according to its own customs and traditions.

I am attaching a photo from a newspaper dated 3/10/2001 that shows a nine-year-old Thai girl giving birth and becoming a mother.

From the book Description of Egypt, written by the French campaign during its presence in Egypt,
Part One, p. 35.
The foreign writer says that the age of marriage was young, and as soon as puberty came, males married at 14 or 15 years old, and females at 12 years old.
He continues that we should not be surprised by these marriages because the weather works to speed up puberty.