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What’s In a Name?
December 6, 2024
Muhammad was the top choice for parents naming their baby boys in England and Wales in 2023. BBC Dec. 5, 2024
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "Name yourselves after me (by my name), but do not call yourselves by my Kuniya (part of an Arabic name which usually begins with "abu" and refers to a father's first-born son), and whoever sees me in a dream, he surely sees me, for Satan cannot impersonate me (appear in my figure). And whoever intentionally ascribes something to me falsely, he will surely take his place in the (Hell) Fire."
Bukhari 73.217
Islam divides the world into two major areas: The Land of Peace where Islamic Law is the law of the land; and The Land of War where it isn’t.
Just like in The Land of Peace—the land where wars are never-ending—Muhammad has become the most popular boys name in England and Wales, proving once again that you can take the boy out of The Land of Peace but you can’t take The Land of Peace out of the boy, starting with his parents.
Mothers will name their sons after Muhammad even when that progeny is the result of the type of rape prevalent in The Land of Peace, that of captives, which Muhammad authoritatively sanctioned by not forbidding it when informed of the practice.
ISIS captive gives birth to child of rape
When they ordered her into a car she thought death was imminent. She was wrong. "'You will be our slave,'" she said, recalling their words.
For more than a year she lived as a prisoner, "like a dead person, but they had not killed me yet."
Toward the end of her captivity one of her captors beat and raped her. "I tried to fight, I cried a lot. There was a lot of pain, I was beaten a lot, but I couldn't do anything," she told CNN's Arwa Damon.
By the time she was released she was pregnant with a son. She named [him] Mohammed.
CNN November 4, 2016
Muhammad established that raping female captives was in accordance with Sharia when asked his opinion of coitus interruptus. In one hadith he would rather that rapists not withdraw before ejaculation; in another, it does not matter.
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
that while he was sitting with Allah's Apostle he said, "O Allah's Apostle! We get female captives as our share of booty, and we are interested in their prices, what is your opinion about coitus interruptus?"
The Prophet said, "Do you really do that? It is better for you not to do it. No soul that which Allah has destined to exist, but will surely come into existence."
Bukhari 34.432
Abu Sirma said to Abu Sa'id al Khadri (Allah be pleased with him): 0 Abu Sa'id, did you hear Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) mentioning al-'azl?
He said: Yes, and added: We went out with Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) on the expedition to the Bi'l- Mustaliq and took captive some excellent Arab women; and we desired them, for we were suffering from the absence of our wives, (but at the same time) we also desired ransom for them. So we decided to have sexual intercourse with them but by observing 'azl (withdrawing the male sexual organ before emission of semen to avoid conception).
But we said: We are doing an act whereas Allah's Messenger is amongst us; why not ask him? So we asked Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), and he said: It does not matter if you do not do it, for every soul that is to be born up to the Day of Resurrection will be born.
Imam Muslim 8:3371
My name, whose one meaning is “brave as a bear” will always be associated, not with a bear but a big, friendly dog. I am okay with that, although it would be nice to also be remembered as the author who revealed the real Muhammad in books such as Jihad in the Koran, From Merchant to Messenger, 1001 Sayings and Deeds of the Prophet Muhammad, etc.
COMMON LIES TOLD ABOUT MUHAMMAD
The less deserving a religious icon’s reputation for propriety the louder will be the call to silence his critics
The following photograph was taken at a protest in Sydney Australia on September 15, 2012 against a film showing the Prophet—like the rest of us—less than perfect. What is written on the sign has become the rallying cry of Islamists. It is meant to intimidate anyone who would even think of questioning a fabricated reputation for decency and compassion.
Never Had Sex With A Child
Additional information about Muhammad marrying and having intercourse with what the West considers a child.
Shortly after taking power, Ayatollah Khomeini lowered the age at which girls could be married off, from eighteen to nine, to conform to Islamic law. In 2006, the Iranian Parliament voted to overturn Khomeini's decree and made it compulsory for girls under the age of 15 and boys under 18 to have court approval to get married. The Guardian Council of the Constitution quashed the initiative, and reinstated Khomeini's ruling. What the legislature voted for was an unacceptable innovation in the religion.
Narrated Aisha:
Allah's Apostle said, "If somebody innovates something which is not in harmony with the principles of our religion, that thing is rejected."
Bukhari 49.861
No man has had more of an impact on an imperfect world than the embodiment of the perfect human being whose every action is to be emulated as closely as possible.
33:21 You have had a good example in Allah’s Messenger; surely for him who hopes for Allah and the Last Day and remembers Allah often.
Narrated Aisha:
The Prophet did something and allowed his people to do it, but some people refrained from doing it. When the Prophet learned of that, he delivered a sermon, and after having sent Praises to Allah, he said, "What is wrong with such people as refrain from doing a thing that I do? By Allah, I know Allah better than they, and I am more afraid of Him than they."
Bukhari 73.123
What the perfect human being did to a child 1,400 years ago is now common practice in many parts of the Muslim world, with disastrous consequences, such as an extraordinary increase in a condition called vesicovaginal fistula or VVF, as mentioned in Leaving Montréal - Jasmine.
To save future children from Muhammad’s example, Islam would have to admit that what he did was wrong. That would effectively destroy the myth of the perfect human being. Not about to happen. The evidence in the hadiths that God's spokesman married Aisha when she was six and had sex with her when he was fifty-three-years of age and she was nine, is overwhelming.
Narrated Aisha:
The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girlfriends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became all right, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women (women of Medina) who said, "Best wishes and Allah's Blessing and a good luck." Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah's Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age.
Bukhari 58.234
Narrated Ursa:
The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).
Bukhari 62.88
Narrated Aisha:
That the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death).
Bukhari 62.64
Narrated Aisha:
When the Prophet married me, my mother came to me and made me enter the house (of the Prophet) and nothing surprised me but the coming of Allah's Apostle to me in the forenoon.
Bukhari 62.90
Narrated Hisham's father:
Khadija (also spelled Khadijah, Muhammad's first wife) died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he married Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old.
Bukhari 58.236
Al-Tabari [838 - 923], author of the definitive history of Islam from Creation to 915 A.D., The History of the Prophets and Kings, quotes Aisha about the blessed day. According to the eminent Muslim historian, Aisha first had sex with Muhammad in her parent’s house.
My mother came to me while I was being swung on a swing between two branches and got me down. My nurse took over and wiped my face with some water and started leading me. When I was at the door she stopped so I could catch my breath. I was brought in while Muhammad was sitting on a bed in our house. My mother made me sit on his lap. The other men and women got up and left. The Prophet consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old. Neither a camel nor a sheep was slaughtered on behalf of me.
Tabari IX:131
There was no wedding celebration, the meaning of "Neither a camel nor a sheep was slaughtered on behalf of me.” What an unseemly sight that would have been: a bearded, past middle-age man marrying a nine-year-old child who still played with dolls, to be followed by a public exit by the bride and groom to consummate, in private, their union.
Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) married her when she was seven (sic) years old, and she was taken to his house as a bride when she was nine, and her dolls were with her; and when he (the Holy Prophet) died she was eighteen years old.
Sahih Muslim 8.3311
Scholars and clerics maintain that a grateful Abu Bakr offered his pre-pubescent daughter, with whom Muhammad had fallen in love, to cement his relationship with the Prophet. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, in The Caged Virgin, writes that Aisha’s father pleaded with Muhammad to wait until his daughter reached adulthood before consummating the marriage.
He fell in love with Aisha, his best friend's nine-year-old daughter. Her father said: "Please wait until she has reached adulthood." But Muhammad would not wait... By our Western standards Muhammad is a perverse man.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Caged Virgin, p. 81
The following hadith would appear to confirm Hirsi Ali’s assertion that Aisha's father was not keen on marrying his young daughter to a man of his generation:
Narrated Ursa:
The Prophet asked Abu Bakr for Aisha's hand in marriage.
Abu Bakr said "But I am your brother."
The Prophet said, "You are my brother in Allah's religion and His Book, but she (Aisha) is lawful for me to marry."
Bukhari 62.18
Muhammad was not a pervert for the child had given her consent.
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "A matron should not be given in marriage except after consulting her; and a virgin should not be given in marriage except after her permission."
The people asked, "O Allah's Apostle! How can we know her permission?"
He said, "Her silence (indicates her permission)."
Bukhari 62.67
A Prophet of Mercy
The so-called Prophet of Mercy was not so much a forecaster of the future as of the past. The events recounted in the Koran, except for Judgement Day, are all about what came before, with the exception of the ubiquitous safe-bet prediction that is the bread and butter of doomsday prophets to this day: “the end is near, repent!” The Prophet of Mercy may have been a typical doomsday prophet but a compassionate man he was not!
Muhammad was praised as the Prophet of Mercy after he pardoned the men he would need to complete the conquest of the Peninsula after Mecca surrendered, while discretely ordering the assassination of four young women and six men, one a fellow by the name of Khatal. Khatal sought the protection of the Ka’ba to no avail.
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah's Apostle entered Mecca in the year of its Conquest wearing an Arabian helmet on his head and when the Prophet took it off, a person came and said, "Ibn Khatal is holding the covering of the Ka'ba (taking refuge in the Ka'ba)."
The Prophet said, "Kill him."
Bukhari 29.72
The four young women the Prophet of Mercy demanded be slaughtered forthwith, as girls during his time in Mecca, had insulted him in some way or had sung satirical ditties about him being a messenger of God.
The apostle had instructed his commanders when they entered Mecca only to fight those who resisted them, except a small number who were to be killed even if they were found beneath the curtains of the Ka'ba. Among them was Abdullah b. Sa'd, brother of the B. Amir b. Lu’ayy. The reason he ordered him to be killed was that he had been a Muslim and used to write down revelation[s]; then he apostatized and returned to Quraysh and fled to Uthman b. Affan whose foster-brother he was; The latter hid him until he brought him to the apostle after the situation in Mecca was tranquil, and asked that he might be granted immunity.
They allege that the apostle remained silent for a long time till finally he said yes. When Uthman had left he said to his companions who were sitting around him, ‘I kept silent so that one of you might get up and strike off his head!’
One of the Ansar said, ‘Then why didn’t you give me a sign, O Apostle of God?’
He answered that a prophet does not kill by pointing.
Another was Abdullah b. Khatal of B. Taym b. Ghalib. He had two singing-girls Fartana and her friend who used to sing satirical songs about the apostle, so he ordered that they should be killed with him.
Another was al-Huvvayrith b. Nuqaydh b. Wahb b. Abd b. Qusayy, one of those who used to insult him in Mecca (804).
Another was Miqyas b. Hubaba because he had killed an Ansar] who had killed his brother accidentally, and returned to Quraysh as a polytheist.
And Sara, freed slave of one of the B. Abdu’l-Muttalib; and Ikrima b. Abu Jahl. Sara had insulted him in Mecca.
As for Tkrima, he fled to the Yaman. As for Ibn Khatal’s two singing-girls, one was killed and the other ran away.
A. Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad: A translation of ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah, Oxford University Press, p. 550-551
The young women were not the first victims of a thin-skinned, vindictive man with a long memory. That honour goes to the poets whose words troubled the Prophet of Mercy.
Allah said: “Kill them wherever you find them!” For no people was this truer than the unfortunate poets who lampooned Muhammad or whom people praised as better versifiers. In their murder, the personification of the perfect human being took a personal interest.
The first poet to be killed was al-Nadr. The Meccans had praised his verses as superior to those of Muhammad. Al-Nadr was among the prisoners captured at Badr. He was beheaded along with another captive by the name of Uqbah on orders from the Prophet of Mercy. The next to die was the oldest poet, if not the oldest man of Medina, centenarian Abu Afak.
He waited for an opportunity until a hot night came, and Abu Afak slept in an open place. Salim b. Umayr knew it, so he placed the sword on his liver and pressed it till it reached his bed. The enemy of Allah screamed and the people, who were his followers rushed him, took him to his house and interred him.
Ibn S’ad, a companion of the Prophet
The courageous poetess Asma bint Marwan condemned, in verse, the murder of the old wordsmith. In the tradition of every despot through the ages, she then became the target of the assassin’s blade. With an infant suckling at her breast, whom her killer pushed aside, she too was stabbed to death while sleeping. After every murder, the assassin would return to the mosque to inform Muhammad and be praised for what he had done at his insistence.
Umayr Ibn Adi came to her in the night and entered her house. Her children were sleeping around her. There was one whom she was suckling. He searched her with his hand because he was blind, and separated the child from her. He thrust his sword in her chest till it pierced up to her back. Then he offered the morning prayers with the Prophet at Medina.
The apostle of Allah said to him: "Have you slain the daughter of Marwan?"
When Umayr replied that the job had been carried out with success, Muhammad said, "You have helped God and His apostle, O Umayr!"
When Umayr asked if he would have to bear any evil consequences, the apostle said, “Two goats won’t butt their heads about her."
Muhammad then praised Umayr in front of all gathered for prayer for his act of murder, and Umayr went back to his people.
Ibn S’ad
Muhammad dared the men of her tribe to seek revenge for her murder, as was the custom. Knowing that there was nothing this man was not capable of, they avoided their own destruction by becoming Muslims. The next unfortunate poet murdered on the Prophet of Mercy’s instructions was Abu-Rafi.
Narrated Al-Bara bin Azib:
Allah's Apostle sent a group of Ansari men to kill Abu-Rafi. One of them set out and entered their (i.e. the enemy’s) fort. That man said, "I hid myself in a stable for their animals. They closed the fort gate. Later they lost a donkey of theirs, so they went out in its search. I, too, went out along with them, pretending to look for it. They found the donkey and entered their fort. And I, too, entered along with them.
They closed the gate of the fort at night, and kept its keys in a small window where I could see them. When those people slept, I took the keys and opened the gate of the fort and came upon Abu Rafi and said, 'O Abu Rafi.’
When he replied me, I proceeded towards the voice and hit him. He shouted and I came out to come back, pretending to be a helper.
I said, 'O Abu Rafi’, changing the tone of my voice.
He asked me, 'What do you want; woe to your mother?'
I asked him, 'What has happened to you?'
He said, 'I don't know who came to me and hit me.' Then I drove my sword into his belly and pushed it forcibly till it touched the bone. Then I came out, filled with puzzlement and went towards a ladder of theirs in order to get down but I fell down and sprained my foot.
I came to my companions and said, 'I will not leave till I hear the wailing of the women.' So, I did not leave till I heard the women bewailing Abu Rafi, the merchant of Hijaz. Then I got up, feeling no ailment, (and we proceeded) till we came upon the Prophet and informed him."
Bukhari 52.264
The murder of the poet Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf:
Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah:
Allah's Apostle said, "Who would kill Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf (Ka'b, a poet, who wrote poems lampooning of Allah's Messenger) as he has harmed Allah and His Apostle?"
Muhammad bin Maslama (got up and) said, "I will kill him."
So, Muhammad bin Maslama went to Ka'b and said, "I want a loan of one or two Wasqs of food grains."
Ka'b said, "Mortgage your women to me."
Muhammad bin Maslama said, "How can we mortgage our women, and you are the most handsome among the Arabs?"
He said, "Then mortgage your sons to me."
Muhammad said, "How can we mortgage our sons, as the people will abuse them for being mortgaged for one or two Wasqs of food grains? It is shameful for us. But we will mortgage our arms to you."
So, Muhammad bin Maslama promised him that he would come to him next time. They (Muhammad bin Maslama and his companions) came to him as promised and murdered him. Then they went to the Prophet and told him about it.
Bukhari 45.687
The mass murder of worshippers at the shrine of Dhul-Khalasa, a rival to the Ka'ba in Mecca:
Narrated Jarir bin Abdullah:
There was a house called Dhul-Khalasa in the Pre-Islamic Period and it was also called Al-Ka'ba Al-Yamaniya or Al-Ka'ba Ash-Shamiya.
Allah's Apostle said to me, "Will you relieve me from Dhul-Khalasa?"
So I left for it with 150 cavalrymen from the tribe of Ahmas and then we destroyed it and killed whoever we found there. Then we came to the Prophet and informed him about it.
He invoked good upon us and upon the tribe of Ahmas.
Bukhari 58.160
After the successful defense of Medina, the famous the Battle of the Ditch, Muhammad received an order from the angel Gabriel to attack the Banu Qurayzah (also spelled Quraiza), the last remaining Jewish tribe of Medina.
Narrated Aisha:
When Allah's Apostle returned on the day (of the battle) of Al-Khandaq (i.e. Trench), he put down his arms and took a bath. Then Gabriel, whose head was covered with dust, came to him saying, "You have put down your arms!
By Allah, I have not put down my arms yet." Allah's Apostle said, "Where (to go now)?"
Gabriel said, "This way," pointing towards the tribe of Bani Quraiza. So Allah's Apostle went out towards them.
Bukhari 52.68
He marched on their fortress just outside Medina with three thousand men. When he neared the fortress, he called out to its defenders: “O brothers of monkeys and pigs! Fear me, fear me.” The simian reference would make its way into the Koran for future generations of the righteous to ponder.
2:65 And you surely know those of you who violated the Sabbath; We said to them: “Be [like] dejected apes.”
2:66 Thus We made an example to their contemporaries and to those after them, and an admonition to the righteous.
After twenty five days, judging their situation hopeless, the Banu Qurayzah asked for a mediator. Muhammad sent Abu Lubabah who matter-of-factly informed the Jews that his boss had slaughter on his mind.
When they saw him (Lubabah), the men rose to meet him, and the women and children rushed to grab hold of him, weeping before him, so that he felt pity for them. They said to him, “Abu Lubabah, do you think that we should submit to Muhammad’s judgment?”
“Yes”, he said, but he pointed with his hand to his throat, that it would be slaughter.
Tabari
The Banu Qurayzah asked to be allowed to go into exile. Muhammad rejected that out of hand and suggested that a mortally wounded believer by the name of Sad bin Mu’adh decide their fate. Ignoring Lubabah’s warning, they agreed and surrendered without a fight.
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
Some people (the Banu Qurayzah) agreed to accept the verdict of Sad bin Mu’adh so the Prophet sent for him. He came riding a donkey, and when he approached the Mosque, the Prophet said, "Get up for the best amongst you." or said, "Get up for your chief."
Then the Prophet said, "O Sad! These people have agreed to accept your verdict."
Sad said, "I judge that their warriors should be killed and their children and women should be taken as captives."
The Prophet said, "You have given a judgment similar to Allah's Judgment."
Bukhari 58.148
A trench was dug in Medina’s marketplace and the men and post-pubescent boys of the Banu Qurayzah were beheaded with the Prophet of Mercy looking on.
The messenger of God commanded that furrows should be dug in the ground for the B. Qurayzah. Then he sat down, and Ali and al-Zubayr began cutting off their heads in his presence... They numbered 600 or 700—the largest estimate says they were between 800 and 900. The affair continued until the Messenger of God had finished with them.
Tabari
How Muhammad’s men ascertained that a young male was old enough to be beheaded:
Narrated Atiyyah al-Qurazi:
I was among the captives of Banu Qurayzah. They examined us, and those who had begun to grow hair (pubes) were killed, and those who had not were not killed. I was among those who had not grown hair.
Abu Dawud 38.4390
The dead men’s wives, daughters and surviving boys were sold into slavery, except for the beautiful widow Rayhanah whom Muhammad made his concubine.
The Banu Qurayzah were one of the three Jewish tribes of Medina—the other two having been forced into exile—who, along with the Arabs of the oasis city, had welcomed Muhammad when his Meccan kin were bent on killing him. Had the Jews of Medina not signed on to the newly drafted Constitution of Medina (one of, if not the first of its kind) in which they, along with their Arab neighbours, accepted Muhammad as arbitrator, Islam might have been stillborn.
God’s spokesman would prove himself a ruthless arbitrator where women accused of illegal intercourse were concerned. One of the more wretched decisions of the Prophet of Mercy:
Malik related to me from Yaqub ibn Zayd ibn Talha from his father Zayd ibn Talha that Abdullah ibn Abi Mulayka informed him that a woman came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and informed him that she had committed adultery and was pregnant.
The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to her, "Go away until you give birth."
When she had given birth, she came to him. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to her, "Go away until you have suckled and weaned the baby."
When she had weaned the baby, she came to him. He said, "Go and entrust the baby to someone."
She entrusted the baby to someone and then came to him. He gave the order and she was stoned.
Malik's Muwatta 41.41.1.5
For more examples of Muhammad’s rulings in cases of illegal sex I invite you to read Chapter “Stoning”, A Thousand and One Sayings and Deeds of the Prophet Muhammad, Boreal Books.
An Illiterate
Who cares, you say? It shouldn’t matter, but it is dogma and to deny it would diminish his purported achievement: memorizing what the Angel Gabriel, the Messenger to the Messenger, revealed to him of Allah’s Koran and repeating, word for word, what he usually had been told the night before to an assembly of believers and sceptics the next day or later, without missing a beat. His rewiring of a section of the Treaty of Hudaibiyah, along with the fact that he was a successful merchant, should put to rest the notion that he was illiterate. There is no denying, however, Muhammad’s power of observation:
Narrated Abu Ishaq-Ash-Shaibani:
I asked Zir bin Hubaish regarding the Statement of Allah: "And was at a distance of but two bow-lengths or (even) nearer; So did (Allah) convey The Inspiration to His slave (Gabriel) and then he (Gabriel) Conveyed (that to Muhammad)." (53;9-10) On that, Zir said, "Ibn Mas'ud informed us that the Prophet had seen Gabriel having 600 wings."
Bukhari 54.455
Not a Wife Beater
Ottawa imam condemns ‘honour killings’… The imam of the Ottawa Mosque has condemned so-called honour killing, saying the practice speaks to a perverse sense of honour that is alien to Islam, and has no place in society… In his sermon, Metwally urged a packed Ottawa Mosque to look to the examples of the Prophet Muhammad, who never hit or abused his wives in any form.”
National post, Dec 11, 2011
I am sure the imam meant well, but this is simply not the case. The following hadith is from The Book of Prayers (Kitab Al-Salat) of Sahih Muslim. It begins with a typical introduction with the narrator identifying himself, followed by some atypical comments from his audience (no quotation marks were in the original translation and I have chosen not to add any).
Muhammad b. Qais said (to the people): Should I not narrate to you (a hadith of the Holy Prophet) on my authority and on the authority of my mother? We thought that he meant the mother who had given him birth. He (Muhammad b. Qais) then reported that it was Aisha who had narrated this: Should I not narrate to you about myself and about the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)? We said: Yes.
From Aisha we learn that it all started when her husband joined her for an intimate moment, after which, thinking she is asleep, he leaves her side.
She said: When it was my turn for Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) to spend the night with me, he turned his side, put on his mantle and took off his shoes and placed them near his feet, and spread the corner of his shawl on his bed and then lay down till he thought that I had gone to sleep. He took hold of his mantle slowly and put on the shoes slowly, and opened the door and went out and then closed it lightly.
Aisha is not asleep and decides to follow her husband outside where she observes him doing hand gestures, after which they both return to the house, Aisha rushing ahead and hopping into bed hoping her spouse is none the wiser.
I covered my head, put on my veil and tightened my waist wrapper, and then went out following his steps till he reached Baqi. He stood there and he stood for a long time. He then lifted his hands three times, and then returned and I also returned. He hastened his steps and I also hastened my steps. He ran and I too ran. He came (to the house) and I also came (to the house). I, however, preceded him and I entered (the house), and as I lay down in the bed, he (the Holy Prophet) entered the (house), and said: Why is it, O Aisha, that you are out of breath?
Muhammad asked the obvious question. She better tell the truth or Allah will tell on her.
I said: There is nothing.
He said: Tell me or the Subtle and the Aware would inform me.
Aisha tells whatever she tells her husband, swearing it is the truth, and this is when he strikes her.
I said: Messenger of Allah, may my father and mother be ransom for you, and then I told him (the whole story).
He said: Was it the darkness (of your shadow) that I saw in front of me?
I said: Yes.
He struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?
She said: Whatsoever the people conceal, Allah will know it.
At this point, Muhammad feels compelled to explain to an obviously skeptical teenager why she did not see Gabriel.
He said: Gabriel came to me when you saw me. He called me and he concealed it from you. I responded to his call, but I too concealed it from you (for he did not come to you), as you were not fully dressed. I thought that you had gone to sleep, and I did not like to awaken you, fearing that you may be frightened.
The hadith ends with Muhammad, on Gabriel's order, instructing his wife to go to a graveyard, where he will join her later, and pray for the dead as penance for having spied on him.
He (Gabriel) said: Your Lord has commanded you to go to the inhabitants of Baqi (to those lying in the graves) and beg pardon for them.
I said: Messenger of Allah, how should I pray for them (How should I beg forgiveness for them)?
He said: Say, Peace be upon the inhabitants of this city (graveyard) from among the Believers and the Muslims, and may Allah have mercy on those who have gone ahead of us, and those who come later on, and we shall, God willing, join you.
Sahih Muslim 4.2127
I would read too much in the punching of Aisha by Muhammad as Islamic scriptures, both the hadiths and the Koran, sanction the beating of wives as a matter of course.