Who was Aisha?

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Aisha bint Abi Bakr (may God be pleased with her) was the Mother of the Believers and one of the most prolific narrators of hadith and jurists among the Companions. She lived with the Prophet ﷺ for nine years and transmitted many hadiths from him. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas