aisha was around 16-19 when she was married & 18-21 when the marriage was consummated; the hadith saying she was 6, was either to connote purity (virginity) by asserting how young she was, or to justify the authors deviancy (the more likely option in my & many others eyes). first of all, the hadiths aren't the quran & as to how we can deduce her age; she is referred to as a woman who owns her own estate multiple times in the quran, if i remember correctly & women had to be atleast 16+ to have this right in arab culture of the time; there are also many other pieces of evidence that suggest her older age, but this is the primary. so we're talking an 18 to 21 year old, shagging a 50+ year old; which is rough & especially by todays standards, but not as grim as with a 6 year old & especially not in the context of the time period.
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