sardab wrote:So as you see age of marriage and sound judgement is linked together. So, at the age of marriage, boys or girls are expected to have a maturity of judgement that willl enable them to take control their own properties. This age is clearly not 6, 8 or 9. This age is 12-14 where girls normally pass the line of puberty.
One other thing to take into consideration
Al-BukhariVolumn 001, Book 008, Hadith Number 465.
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Narated By 'Aisha : (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 visited us, both in the mornings and evenings. My father Abu Bakr thought of building a mosque in the courtyard of his house and he did so. He used to pray and recite the Qur'an in it. The pagan women and their children used to stand by him and look at him with surprise. Abu Bakr was a Softhearted person and could not help weeping while reciting the Quran. The chiefs of the Quraish pagans became afraid of that (i.e. that their children and women might be affected by the recitation of Quran)."
Aisha is speaking here about the Makkah period before the Hijrah. She began puberty long before the Hirah when she was still living with her parents in which she did not marry the Prophet until the second year after the Hijrah.
This hadeeth places her at a much more older age, than what was reported, as she was in her puberty stage already that occured way before the Marriage took place.