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| The above hadith is located in al-Tirmidhi, despite being sourced as such. The hadith actually recorded as {{Al Tirmidhi||2|8|1037}} regards funerals rather than resurrection. | | The above hadith is located in al-Tirmidhi, despite being sourced as such. The hadith actually recorded as {{Al Tirmidhi||2|8|1037}} regards funerals rather than resurrection. |
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| ==Mistranslated Hadiths==
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| ==='Aisha reached puberty before consumating her marriage===
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| 'Aisha lived with her parents before her marriage to Muhammad was consummated at the age of 9 ({{Muslim|8|3310}}). The following mistranslation is often presented as evidence that she reached puberty while she still lived there.
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| {{Quote|{{Bukhari|1|8|465}}| Narrated `Aisha:
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| (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...}}
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| The word أَعْقِلْ means to use thoughts or reasoning, but the translator Muhsin Khan has used the word 'puberty'. The meaning rather is that 'Aisha was never aware of a time when her parents were not Muslim. A literal translation would be "I was not aware of my parents other than that the two of them both acknowledged the religion" (لَمْ أَعْقِلْ أَبَوَىَّ إِلاَّ وَهُمَا يَدِينَانِ الدِّينَ).
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| The same Arabic phrase is translated as follows in another hadith by the same translator:
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| {{Quote|{{Bukhari|8|73|102}}| Narrated `Aisha:
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| (the wife of the Prophet) "I do not remember my parents believing in any religion other than the Religion (of Islam), and our being visited by Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in the morning and in the evening....}}
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| See also the two other occurrences in {{Bukhari|3|37|494}} and {{Bukhari|5|58|245}}.
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| The 'puberty' mistranslation also fails to achieve chronological sensibility. 'Aisha's father, Abu Bakr, was one of Muhammad's first followers. It would not have taken until puberty for 'Aisha to notice that her father followed the religion.
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| ==External Links== | | ==External Links== |