Was it really necessary for Mohammed to have thirteen wives if he was saying you can't have more than four? I know Muslims say prophets can break the law for practical reasons, and Mohammed broke it to gain followers by marrying into alliances, but Jesus didn't have to marry a bunch of women to get people to follow him.
Bin Laden's father had 23. Marry, impregnate a few times, divorce. Women are literally cattle in the middle East.
Jesus didn't get people to follow him. That was all done well after his time.
>>1475248
Jesus had a number of followers, over eighty in apostles alone.
>>1475259
He didn't have armies and nations though.
>>1475248
Jesus had 12 apostles
And the gospels of Mark tells us that thousands of people followed him, the crowds that followed him were very, very large
>>1475267
He clearly didn't need them to spread his faith.
>>1475123
It was necessary to make all the conflicting stories in the hadith make sense. Most likely all the wives of Muhammad are figures that were created in order to connect this certain family, tribe, or ethnicity to the personal life of a prophet, and when it came time to compile a more coherent narrative a century or two later there was an obvious contradiction when there were several woman who people claimed Muhammad had married.
>>1475318
this, as a muslim, i don't even know anymore, which hadith is right? which is made up?
>>1475372
None of them, only the precursors to the Gospels are right.
Convert ye now, or taste retribution
>>1475532
>>1475537
There is no stopping, there is only the physical incarnation of the one God's three personae which are of equal and consistent will and nature
>>1475123
>cultural norms
You can only get a second/third wife if your first wife allows it. Or that's how it's supposed to be
>>1475270
yuuuge the best crowds
>>1475123
Most of them were widows, who weren't allowed to be married under pagan law.
He did it to prove that it wasn't binding.