2. Menstruation

٢۔ كِتَابُ الْحَيْضِ

2.10 Age of Menstruation

٢۔١٠ بَابُ السِّنِّ الَّتِي وُجِدَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ حَاضَتْ فِيهَا

Among what Abu ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥāfiẓ authorized me to transmit from him, from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm, from al-Rabīʿ, from al-Shāfiʿī, who said: “The earliest I have heard of women menstruating are women in Tihāmah; they menstruate at nine years of age.”

فِيمَا أَجَازَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ رِوَايَتَهُ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَبَّاسِ الْأَصَمِّ عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ عَنِ الشَّافِعِيِّ قَالَ: أَعْجَلُ مَنْ سَمِعْتُ بِهِ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ يَحِضْنَ نِسَاءٌ بِتِهَامَةَ يَحِضْنَ لِتِسْعِ سِنِينَ

Reports on early female maturity

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I saw in Sanaa a grandmother who was twenty-one years old: she had menstruated at nine years old and gave birth at ten, and the daughter menstruated at nine years old and gave birth at ten.

It is mentioned from al-Hasan b. Salih that he said: I came across a neighbor of ours who became a grandmother at twenty-one years old.

And from Mughirah al-Dabbi, that he said: I had a wet dream when I was twelve years old. And we narrated from Aishah ᴿᴬ that she said: "When a girl reaches nine years, she is a woman," meaning, and Allah knows best, if she menstruates, then she is a woman.

البيهقي:١٥٣١وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو أَحْمَدَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ الشَّعْبِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْأَرْزَنَانِيُّ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ طَاهِرِ بْنِ حَرْمَلَةَ ثنا جَدِّي ثنا الشَّافِعِيُّ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ بِصَنْعَاءَ جَدَّةً بِنْتَ إِحْدَى وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةً، حَاضَتِ ابْنَةَ تِسْعٍ وَوَلَدَتِ ابْنَةَ عَشْرٍ، وَحَاضَتِ الْبِنْتُ ابْنَةَ تِسْعٍ وَوَلَدَتِ ابْنَةَ عَشْرٍ.

وَيُذْكَرُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: أَدْرَكْتُ جَارَةً لَنَا صَارَتْ جَدَّةً بِنْتِ إِحْدَى وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةً.

وَعَنْ مُغِيرَةَ الضَّبِّيِّ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: احْتَلَمْتُ وَأَنَا ابْنُ اثْنَتَيْ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً. وَرُوِّينَا عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ أَنَّهَا قَالَتْ: إِذَا بَلَغَتِ الْجَارِيَةُ تِسْعَ سِنِينَ فَهِيَ امْرَأَةٌ، تَعْنِي وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ فَحَاضَتْ فَهِيَ امْرَأَةٌ.