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Mulaykah’s exact age is not given, but there is a clue in this statement. | Mulaykah’s exact age is not given, but there is a clue in this statement. | ||
{{Quote|{{Tabari|39|165}}.|Her clan came to the Prophet and said, | {{Quote|{{Tabari|39|165}}.|Her clan came to the Prophet and said, “'''She is small''' and has '''no mind of her own'''; she was beguiled.”}} | ||
If they expected Mohammed to believe that “she is too young to think for herself,” they were suggesting that she was barely an adult – someone whose body had so recently reached puberty that her mind had not yet caught up. | If they expected Mohammed to believe that “she is too young to think for herself,” they were suggesting that she was barely an adult – someone whose body had so recently reached puberty that her mind had not yet caught up. | ||