It is narrated from Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Aqil that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married twelve women.

It is narrated from Qatadah that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married fifteen women: six of them were from Quraysh, one was an ally of Quraysh, seven were from other Arab tribes, and one was from the Children of Israel; and in the Jahiliyyah he (peace and blessings be upon him) married only one woman (Sayyidah Khadijah (may Allah be pleased with her)). Abu Ubaydah Ma'mar bin al-Muthanna differed with them regarding this number, and his view is closer to the truth.

Abu Ubayd al-Qasim bin Sallam (may Allah have mercy on him) states: It has been established and authenticated with us that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married eighteen women in total: seven of them belonged to various clans of Quraysh, one was an ally of Quraysh, nine belonged to other Arab tribes, and one was from the Children of Israel, from the descendants of Harun bin Imran, the brother of Musa bin Imran. Abu Ubayd says: "The first of his pure wives whom he (peace and blessings be upon him) married was Sayyidah Khadijah (may Allah be pleased with her), in the Jahiliyyah; then, in the era of Islam, he married Sayyidah Sawdah bint Zam'ah in Makkah itself; then, two years before the Hijrah, he contracted marriage with Sayyidah Aishah; then, after arriving in Madinah, in the year 2 AH after the Battle of Badr, he married Sayyidah Umm Salamah; in the same year, 2 AH, he married Sayyidah Hafsah bint Umar, and these five wives were from Quraysh. Then in the year 3 AH he married Sayyidah Zaynab bint Jahsh; then in the year 5 AH he married Sayyidah Juwayriyah; then in the year 6 AH he married Sayyidah Umm Habibah bint Abi Sufyan; then in the year 7 AH he married Sayyidah Safiyyah bint Huyayy; after that Sayyidah Maymunah bint al-Harith, then Fatimah bint Shurayh, then Zaynab bint Khuzaymah, then Hind bint Yazid, then Asma' bint al-Nu'man, then Qutaylah bint Qays, the sister of al-Ash'ath, and then he married Asma' bint Sanah al-Sulamiyyah." Mention of the pure wives and other women from among the female Companions, of whom we begin first with al-Siddiqah bint al-Siddiq, Sayyidah Aishah bint Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with them both).

Yazid bin Yazid bin Jabir narrates from his father that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) married Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) when she was seven years old; when she was sent to his home she was nine years old; when he (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away she was eighteen years old; and she herself died in the time of Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him), in the year 57 AH.

It is narrated from Hisham bin Urwah that Urwah wrote to al-Walid bin Abd al-Malik bin Marwan: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) after the death of Sayyidah Khadijah (may Allah be pleased with her). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had been shown her in a dream three times, and it was said (by the angel): "This is your wife Aishah." At the time the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married her, she was six years old; then, when he (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Madinah, she was sent to his home at the age of nine. The Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), died on the night of Tuesday after the Witr prayer, when fifteen nights (of the month of Ramadan) had passed, and she was buried that same night in Jannat al-Baqi'. Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) led her funeral prayer, because Marwan was absent at that time and Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) was acting as his deputy.

It is narrated from Muhammad bin Umar (al-Waqidi) that the mother of Sayyidah Aishah bint Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with them both) was Umm Ruman bint Umayr bin Amir, who belonged to Banu Duhman bin al-Harith bin Ghanm bin Malik bin Kinanah. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married her in the month of Shawwal in the tenth year of Prophethood, three years before the Hijrah, and she was sent to the home of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) eight months after the Hijrah, also in the month of Shawwal; at the time she was sent to his home she was nine years old.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she was asked: When did the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) take you to his home? She said: When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) emigrated to Madinah, he left us and his daughters behind (in Makkah). Then, when he (peace and blessings be upon him) reached Madinah, he (peace and blessings be upon him) sent Zayd bin Harithah and his freed slave Abu Rafi' to us, and gave them two camels and five hundred dirhams, which he (peace and blessings be upon him) had taken from Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), to buy the mounts they needed. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) sent Abdullah bin Uraiqit al-Dili along with them with two or three camels, and wrote to Abdullah bin Abi Bakr to bring his household, namely Umm Ruman, me, and my sister Asma', the wife of al-Zubayr. So they all set out, and when they reached Qudayd, Zayd bin Harithah bought three camels with those five hundred dirhams. Then they all entered Makkah, and there they met Talhah bin Ubaydullah, who intended to emigrate with the family of Abu Bakr. Then we all set out together. Zayd bin Harithah and Abu Rafi' took Sayyidah Fatimah, Sayyidah Umm Kulthum and Sayyidah Sawdah bint Zam'ah, while Zayd also mounted Umm Ayman and Usamah bin Zayd. Abdullah bin Abi Bakr set out with his mother Umm Ruman and his two sisters, and Sayyiduna Talhah bin Ubaydullah was also with them. We all travelled together until, when we reached al-Bayd, my camel bolted while I was in a litter with my mother. My mother began crying out: "O my daughter! O my bride!" until our camel came down the slope of Lift and was brought under control, and we remained safe. Then we reached Madinah, and I stayed with the family of Abu Bakr, while the family of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed in their own place. In those days he (peace and blessings be upon him) was building the mosque and our apartments; then he (peace and blessings be upon him) moved his household there, and we stayed a few days in the house of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah, what prevents you from taking your wife to your home?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The dowry (mahr)." So Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) gave him (peace and blessings be upon him) twelve uqiyah and a nashsh (twelve and a half uqiyah) for the dowry. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent that dowry to us, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took me to his home in this very house in which I live today; in this same house he (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away and there he (peace and blessings be upon him) was buried. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) made a door for himself into the mosque directly opposite the door of Sayyidah Aishah's (may Allah be pleased with her) apartment. Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) relates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) built for Sayyidah Sawdah (may Allah be pleased with her) one of those houses that were beside mine, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to stay with her. Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) died in the year 58 AH, in the month of Ramadan.

It is narrated from Habib (the freed slave of Urwah) that when Sayyidah Khadijah (may Allah be pleased with her) died, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was deeply grieved for her. So Jibril (peace be upon him) brought Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) to him in a cradle and said: O Messenger of Allah, she will be a means of removing your grief, and in her you will find a replacement for Sayyidah Khadijah. Then she was taken back. Thereafter the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would frequently visit the house of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and would say: "O Umm Ruman, accept my counsel to treat Aishah well, and look after her for my sake." Because of this, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) came to have a special standing with her family, although they did not know what Allah Almighty had decreed concerning her. One day the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came - and from the time he accepted Islam until the Hijrah, no day passed without his going to the house of Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) - and found Aishah hiding behind the door of Abu Bakr, weeping bitterly. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked the reason, and she complained about her mother, that she was harsh with her. Hearing this, the eyes of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) filled with tears. He (peace and blessings be upon him) went to Umm Ruman and said: "O Umm Ruman, did I not counsel you about Aishah, that you should look after her for my sake?" She said: O Messenger of Allah, she told al-Siddiq (Abu Bakr) what we said, and he became angry with us. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Even if she did (still look after her)." Umm Ruman said: "Now I will never hurt her." Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) was born at the beginning of the fourth year of Prophethood, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married her in the month of Shawwal in the tenth year of Prophethood, when she was six years old; and this marriage took place one month after the marriage to Sayyidah Sawdah (may Allah be pleased with her).

It is narrated from Salim Sabalan that the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), died on the seventeenth night of the month of Ramadan after the Witr prayer. She had instructed that she be buried that same night. So the Ansar gathered in large numbers; so many people had never before been seen at any funeral. The people of the upper areas of Madinah (al-Awali) also took part, and she was buried in al-Baqi'.

It is narrated from Nafi'; he said: I was present when Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) led the funeral prayer of Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) at al-Baqi', while Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) was also among the people and raised no objection to it. That year Marwan had gone to perform Umrah and had appointed Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) as his deputy.