Or another, probably more sound rationale would be: could God really call this behaviour exemplary for all mankind? Or does this look like someone used alleged divine revelation to justify his own transgressions? Because if such behaviour is exemplary for all mankind, forever, what are the moral justifications to outlaw it today? Surely people don't know better than the Almighty.
ive covered this topic many times before and ill do it again
if you posess any sincerity in you, you'll think through what im about to say
1) forget what other muslims say, they are dumb.
hadith are not 'facts', they are historical sources of information, all different, all random....and should be treated on a case by case basis.
the 'saheeh' thing, means those imams (imam bukhari, muslim etc) determined by their own logic, reason and political bias/influence that those sources were verified/trustworthy...but that doesnt mean the actual information within the source is.
you can have a legitimate historical source of information, that was a lie or propaganda.
the only reason mainstream sunnis inc muhammed hijab never ever criticise the hadith, is because they are under sectarian influence and think it is easier to just say 'nah aisha hit puberty' rather than the other.
2) the abbasid caliphate was in competition with the shia movement which, back then, had greater influence and numbers than today (percentage wise). The shia have their own hadith with their own people/sources.
One of the ways the shia tried to discredit the sunni side, was to attack the character of Aisha. s
you can google science this one mate....'shia hate aisha' 'shia curse aisha'
they accuse her of adultery, of being a horrible and even a murderous wife. it is insane.
the abbasid response was to instead create the image of a perfect, innocent child bride...hence that hadith.
3) the same hadith collection, Bukhari, contains this hadith
(the wife of the Prophet) I had seen my parents following Islam since I attained the age of puberty. Not a day passed but the Prophet (ﷺ) visited us, both in the mornings and evenings. My father Abu Bakr thought of building a mosque in the courtyard of his house and he did so. He used to pray and recite the Qur'an in it. The pagan women and their children used to stand by him and look at him with surprise. Abu Bakr was a Softhearted person and could not help weeping while reciting the Qur'an. The chiefs of the Quraish pagans became afraid of that (i.e. that their children and women might be affected by the recitation of Qur'an).
Note, i dont trust muzzies either btw..and these muzzies have blagged the word 'puberty' into this RECENTLY. it never used to say puberty. the arabic literally says عُقَيْلٍ، AKKAL ie intelligence.
in islam/muslim thinking, the age of intelligence/akkal is when we're around 7, past infancy..and know right from wrong and can form chronolical order in our memories etc. prior to that most of our memories are like a dream, without structure. it is when we're around 7, we can understand chronology.
i fucking despise muslim quran/hadith translators, they are every bit as corrupt as any historical jewish scribe 'corrupting the book'
they only discredit islam even when there is no need.
SO...aisha was at least 7 when her father embraced islam, when Mohammad was 40...
that would make her age 20 when she married Mohammad age 53 (or was it consumated at that age)?
this makes sense..because Aisha was already engaged to a man prior to marrying Mohammad.
the hadith that make Aisha a child bridge, are deeply influenced by abbasid-shia political warfare...
the reason the hadith scholars on both sides ARE ALL PERSIAN is because persia became the centre of islamic rule via the abbasids.
if you posess some degree of know how, you can see through the political agendas in hadith and know which ones are fake
@Daze the hadith of 'the carriers of the black flag' in relation to the Mahdi, is a forgery.
it rips off from the Bahman Yast, which itself is a jewish forgerty of Daniel, designed to ferment war between persia and rome..and thus attain the mesianic dream. then Mohammad manifested into the world, by virtue of the leviticus 26 'punishments' theme, as a collective guilt complex...
in otherwords, the jews created and shaped Mohammad and he materialised as an arab by virtue of their own collective guilt complex.
meanwhile today the jews are attempting to reverse the polarity created in the past...to undo islam and persia, ie to bring about that messiah.
yet the muslim Mahdi figure, a byproduct and a forgery of the bahman yast forgery itself....only leads to dajjal..and ironically i believe the same process with jewish messianicism, leads to the actual Mahdi.
it's all topsy turvy subconscious law of attraction shit going on.
but that's my personal take.
the abbasids were a brutal, murderous caliphate though. they def did persecute and murder actual bloodline descendants of prophet Mohammad aswell, which is why the hate is so strong against Aisha who began the entire anti-Ali uprising from, day 1.