The largest part of what is recorded about Aisha concerns the sixty years she lived after the Prophet's death, in Medina, as an authority to be consulted. The Sunni collections attribute a very large number of reports to her, traditionally counted in the low thousands, and they are of a distinctive kind: what he did in the house, how he prayed at night, what he did when he was ill, questions of ritual purity, ablution and fasting that arose where nobody else was present. Because she was young when he died and lived long, her chain of transmission is short, which is a technical advantage in the science that grew up around these reports.
Her material also has a characteristic manner. A recurring form is the correction: a report from another Companion is put to her and she qualifies it, supplies a context that changes its force, or contradicts it outright, and later collectors preserved those exchanges rather than smoothing them away. Scholars of the period cite her as a jurist as well as a transmitter, and pupils of both sexes are named.
One matter is genuinely disputed and the atlas states it as such rather than settling it. The age at which she was married is given differently in different early reports, and modern scholars have argued at length about how those figures should be read against other dated events in the sources. The atlas records that the reports disagree and that the question is argued, and takes no position.