Yazid bin Hurmaz says: Najdah wrote a letter to Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) to ask five things, ... ... one of them was: when does the period of orphanhood for an orphan end? Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) wrote in reply: You have asked me when the period of orphanhood for an orphan ends. By my life, a man’s beard may grow, but even then he may remain weak in handling his affairs. When he is able to choose the good for himself from among the matters of people, then his orphanhood ends.

(Second chain) A similar hadith is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), except that in it: And he was asked about the orphan, when will his orphanhood end? He said: When he reaches puberty and goodness is perceived from him.

Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) ordered the stoning of a mad woman. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: You do not have the authority to do so, because I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: The pen has been lifted from three persons: from the sleeping person until he wakes up, from the child until he reaches puberty, and from the mad person until he recovers. Upon hearing this, Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) removed the punishment from her.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Atiyyah Qarazi (may Allah be pleased with him), he says: I was presented before the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on the day of Qurayzah. When people doubted whether I was mature or not, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that it be checked whether I had grown pubic hair or not. When they saw that I had not grown these hairs, I was released and included among the captives.

Imam Nafi’ says that it is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he was presented to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) at the time of the Battle of Uhud, while he was fourteen years old, but the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not permit him. Then he was presented at the time of the Battle of Khandaq at the age of fifteen, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) granted him permission.

It is narrated from Sayyida Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that she went to Sayyida Umm Talha Talhat Safiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) and saw that mature girls were praying without scarves. So she said: None of these girls should pray without a scarf. Once, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to me while a girl was under my care. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave me his lower garment and said: Tear this lower garment and give it to this girl and the girl being raised under the care of Umm Salamah, because I think both of them have reached maturity.