yet grown any, so he spared me.

Saʿd ibn Muʿādh had judged that the combatants among them should be killed and their women and children taken captive. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him, “You have judged them with the judgment of Allah.”

The jurists differ over the age at which someone who has experienced neither a seminal emission nor the appearance of pubic hair is nonetheless treated as legally adult. One view sets it at seventeen years; another at eighteen; a third allows for an even higher age where such cases are numerous; and a fourth fixes it at fifteen. Those who adopt the fifteen-year position include ʿAbd Allah ibn Wahb and ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Majishūn—both companions of Mālik—as well as ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, al-Awzāʿī, al-Shāfiʿī, a group of scholars from Medina, and others. These authorities make no distinction between ḥadd penalties and the establishment of religious obligations.

The scholars recommend that a boy or girl be instructed to fast when they are able to bear it; a child is commanded to perform the prayer at seven years of age and disciplined for neglecting it at ten.

Whoever embraces Islam, reaches puberty, or regains his sanity during Ramadan must fast the remainder of that month, but not the days that