Dashti, Ali (1985). Twenty-three Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad. Mazda Publishers. s. 123. ISBN9781135030421. OCLC827206946. [«She was seven years old when she was betrothed and nine years old when she was married to the Prophet, the gap between them being more than forty years. Her age when he died in 11 A.H./632 was sixteen or seventeen years. She was the Prophet's favorite wife.»]