Age Of Aisha R.a.
Also the argument that Hisham forgot ashara has no evidence. His memory was only weak at the end of his life and not so bad. Nevertheless, for argument’s sake, even if we do consider Hishām’s narrations to be weak, there are other narrations without Hishām in their chains that prove Aishāh Radhiyallāhu Anhā’s age to be six at the time of marriage and nine at the time she started to reside with Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alaihi Wa Sallam. Imām Muslim narrates the following Hadīth in which Hishām is not in the chain: حدثنا يحيL بن يحيL، وإسحاق بن إبراهيم، وأبو بكر بن أبي شيبة، وأبو كريب، قال يحيL، وإسحاق: أخبرنا، وقال الآخران: حدثنا أبو معاوية، عن الأعمش، عن إبراهيم، عن الأسود، عن عائشة، قالت: »تزوجها رسول الله صلL الله عليه وسلم وهي بنت ست، وبنL بها وهي بنت تسع، ومات عنها وهي بنت ثمان عشرة )صحيح مسلم، ج 2، ص 1039، دار إحياء التراث العربي – بيروت( Aishah Radhiyallāhu Anhā reports that Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alaihi Wa Sallam married her when she was six years old, he started living with her when she was nine years old, and he passed away when she was eighteen years old. (Sahīh Muslim)
The holy prophet married Hazrat Sawda first and she was doing the job, later he married Hazrat Ayesha.