Prophet's marraige to Ayesha

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In the name of GOD the most Gracious most Merciful,

It is my hobby to travel through the space of internet during free times to know more about others thpughts. However during one voyage I found by coincedence a website of a Muslim researcher. His name is Dr. Sabbir Ahmad. He is American but originally from the Indian sub-continent. What I understood from him is that he takes Islam from the Qur-an only and he wrote many books related to that topic (for e.g. The Qur'an as it Explains Itself, Islam as I Understand, Criminals of Islam....etc)

Actually his books contain many intersting things. Although I disagree with some of their contents, still reading these books is an enjoyable experience. 

In one of his books (Islam: The True History and False Beliefs) , this book is published in the writer's website ( http://www.ourbeacon.com/7101.html) and it discusses some interesting topics which deserve to be discussed in this honorable site  . One of these topics is about the marraiges of prohet Mohammed (PBUH) . In page 151 of that book, the writer says about the marraige of Mohammed (PBUH) to Ayesha in 622:

((Contrary to the Imamist propaganda, the exalted Prophet had no more than one wife at a time. And Hazrat Ayesha was a sister, not daughter of Hazrat Abu Bakr. The Prophet (S) did not marry for three years after Hazrat Khadijah's demise in Makkah three years before Hijrah. Hazrat Ayesha was the widow of a martyr, Saleh bin Saleh Al-'Ataib. She was 48 years old at the time of marriage to the exalted Prophet. Sahaba Kiraam including Hazrat Abu Bakr strongly recommended that the Prophet (S) and she got into the solemn union of marriage. The blessed wedding took place in 622 CE when Muhammad (S) was 52 years old. Kitab-e-Dalail-e-Nabawwut Syedna Muhammad (S), by Abdul Jabbar Qaramati, written 150 years before  Tabari, the first ever 'canonized' historian. Azwaaj-in-Nabi wal -Ashaab, by Sheikh Hammad bin Hakam. The rest is nothing but slanderous imagination of the Zoroastrian "Imam" Tabari and the Jewish biographer Ibn Ishaq and his Parsi follower Ibn Hisham.

Actually I was surprised when I red that. All I know about that were some narrations which say that Ayesha's age was 7, 9 or even some said 14. Thus it was clear to me that all these narrations are not reliable. However what I need is more information about the historian Abdul Jabbar Al Qaramati as I never heard about this name before. And I want to know if he did really talk about this marraige in this manner (which sound really logic to me).

I wish that anyone can help me on this,

Your Brother,

Shadi EL-Farran 

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