Evidence #2
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Originally posted by PakistaniAbroad:
EVIDENCE #2:
However, in another work, Al-Tabari says: “All four of his [Abu Bakr’s] children were born of his two wives during the pre-Islamic period” (Tarikhu’l-umam wa’l-mamlu’k, Al-Tabari (died 922), Vol. 4, p. 50, Arabic, Dara’l-fikr, Beirut, 1979).
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Evidence #2 appears to be based on a misunderstanding of what at-Tabari (d.302H) actually said. At-Tabari explains that Abu Bakr (r) married four times, twice in the pre-Islamic period to two women through whom he had a total of four children (including Aisha [r]) and twice again during the Islamic period. The words cited above don't mean that all four children were born in the pre-Islamic period, only that Abu Bakr (r) married their mothers during that period. A better translation might be: "All those four children were born of his two wives - who we've previously named - [which he married] in the pre-Islamic period."
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