Salah al-Din al-Idlibi

Salah al-Din al-Idlibi
صلاح الدين بن أحمد الإدلبي
Personal life
Born1948 (age 76–77)
Idlib, First Syrian Republic
Main interest(s)Hadith studies
Religious life
ReligionIslam
SectSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i
Websitehttps://idlbi.net/

Salah al-Din ibn Ahmad al-Idlibi (Arabic: صلاح الدين بن أحمد الإدلبي, romanized: Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad al-Idlibī) is a Syrian traditionalist hadith scholar. Born in Idlib in 1948, al-Idlibi obtained a PhD in Islamic Sciences in 1980 from Dar al-Hadith al-Hasaniyyah in Morocco, specialising in hadith. He follows the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence.[1]

He is best known for publishing a pamphlet in 2013 which argued that Aisha, a wife of Muhammad, was between 17 and 19 years old at the time of her marriage rather than 9, which is the age transmitted in the Sunni hadith literature.[2][1] Al-Idlibi argues that while the traditions giving Aisha's age as 9 have authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) chains of transmission (asānid), their content (matn) must be erroneous due to other traditions that establish a different chronology of events in her life. As multiple traditions with independent asānid exist, al-Idlibi suggests the error originated with Aisha herself.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Mol, Arnold Yasin (2020-12-06). "Aisha (ra): The Case for an Older Age in Sunni Hadith Scholarship". Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. Archived from the original on 6 December 2020. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  2. ^ Ali, Rashad (2023-06-30). "Why Scholars of Islam Disagree About the Age of the Prophet Muhammad's Youngest Wife". New Lines Magazine. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  3. ^ Little, Joshua (2022). The Hadith of ʿĀʾišah's Marital Age: a study in the evolution of early Islamic historical memory. University of Oxford. p. 14.