Madam Aishah, a Study of her age at the time of her marriage with Prophet Muhammad

Historical Fact 4. Aishah was one of the first children to embrace Islam:

One of Ibn Hisham’s statements in his ‘Sirah of the Prophet’ was that Ali and Aishah were amongst the first children to embrace Islam. Although Ibn Hisham sometimes makes rather strange statements – for example, he included Zaid bin Harith as one of the first men – which was a little odd since Zaid was around the same age as Ali, some ten years old – there is no reason to conclude that Aishah was not one of the first children to take the faith.

If Aishah really was one of the first children to embrace Islam, it must necessarily have been after the call to Prophethood in 610. Now, if Aishah was not born until four years after this, and we must surely assume that she must have been at least four years old before we can realistically speak of her accepting a faith herself, then her acceptance of Islam must have occurred in around 618. In that year it is highly unlikely that she could still have qualified as one of the first children to accept it. Many others had done so by then.

However, if she was born some four years before the call, then it does make sense.

Actually, Aishah claimed to have been the 19th person to accept Islam; this would obviously have been impossible if she did not take the faith until around 618. It would still be impossible even if she was born in 614, incidentally.