Why is Ibn Abbas accepted to have been 13 years old at the time of the death of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ?
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A hadith in Bukhari states that Ibn Abbas was 10 years old when the Prophet died:
>وقال ابن عباس توفي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وأنا ابن عشر سنين وقد قرأت المحكم
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> Ibn Abbas said, "Allah's Apostle died when I was a boy of ten years, and I had learnt the Muhkam (of the Qur'an).
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> — [Bukhari](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5035 )
However he is generally accepted to have been 13 years old. On what basis was the age of 13 determined? Isn't the information in Bukhari more reliable?
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