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Aisha was one of the wives of the Prophet (s). She married him after the death of [[Lady Khadija (a)]] and after the Prophet's marriage to [[Suda bt. Zam'at b. Qays|Suda]], the daughter of Zam'a b. Qays.<ref>Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, ''al-Istīʿāb'', vol. 4, p. 1881.</ref> Her marriage with the Prophet (s) lasted nine years and five months.<ref>Ibn Ḥazm, ''Jawāmiʿ al-sīra al-nabawīyya'', p. 37.</ref> It is widely agreed that the marriage took place after the demise of Lady Khadija (a). However, there is disagreement about whether it occurred two or three years before [[Hijra]].<ref>Majlisī, ''Biḥār al-anwār'', vol. 23, p. 235; Ibn Ḥajar, ''al-Iṣāba'', vol. 8, p. 232.</ref> On some accounts, Aisha's marriage to the Prophet (s) preceded his marriage to Suda. However, according to most hadiths, the Prophet's marriage to Suda preceded his marriage to Aisha.<ref>Ibn Saʿd, ''al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā'', vol. 8, p. 46; Dīnawarī, ''al-Maʿārif'', p. 133-134.</ref> It is said that Khawla, [[Uthman b. Maz'un]]'s wife, went to [[Abu Bakr]] and proposed the marriage to Aisha's father. The Prophet (s) married Aisha in [[Shawwal]] of [[11]] (December 632).<ref>Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, ''ʿUyūn al-athar'', vol. 2, p. 368.</ref> The [[mahr]] for their marriage was four hundred dirhams.<ref>Suhaylī, ''al-Rawḍ al-unuf'', vol. 7, p. 534.</ref>