Edited sentence: Hence, allegations that the Messenger of Islam (pbuh) would (God forbid) force himself on a nine year-old girl -- as she played with her dolls, no less -- should be seen for the hate-filled, malicious slander they are.In order to better contextualize things, note the following:  (1)In the tenth year after the Prophet (pbuh) received his calling from God, his wife Khadija passed away  (2)The hijra or emigration of the Prophet (pbuh) to Madina took place three years later  (3)Aisha came to the household of the Prophet (pbuh), and hence the marriage was consumated, in the second year after hijra.Thus, if Aisha was born in the year of the Call (and many scholars agree she was) she would be ten years old at the time of the nikah and fifteen years old at the time of the consummation of the marriage