Concerning the Young Arriving at Puberty, and
on their Up-bringing
It is related from Ibn ʿOmar that he said, 'I was brought before the Apostle of God in the year of (the battle of) Uhud, when I was fourteen years of age; but he sent me back. After that I was presented to him in the year (of the battle) of the ditch, when I was fifteen years of age. Then he permitted me (to fight).' And ʿOmar bin ʿAbduʾl-Azíz said, 'This (age) is the boundary between those who fight and children.'—Muslim, Al Bukhárí.
It is related from Al Barái bin ʿAzíb that he said, 'The Prophet made peace on the day of Ḥudaibah on three conditions: that whoever came to him from the polytheists, he would send him back to them; that whoever came to them from the Muslims, they would not send him back; and that he should enter Mecca the next year, and stay in it three days. Then when he entered it, and the time expired, he went out. And there followed him the daughter of Ḥamza, calling out, "O uncle, O uncle." And ʿAlí stretched out his hand, and took her by the hand. And ʿAlí and Zaid and Jaʿfar disputed about her (as to who should become her guardian). ʿAlí said, " I took her because she is the daughter of my uncle." Jaʿfar said, "She is the daughter of my uncle, and her aunt is my wife." And Zaid said, "She is the daughter of my brother." Then the Prophet passed judgement in favour of her mother's sister, and said, "A mother's sister is in the place of a mother." And he said to ʿAlí, " Thou belongest to me and I to thee." And he said to Jaʿfar, "Thou dost resemble me in thy build and disposition." And he said to Zaid, "Thou art our brother and our friend."'—Muslim, Al Bukhárí.
