If Someone Was Abused as a Child (Made To Masturbate) Does This Mean They Reached Puberty From That Age?

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch 

Question Summary 

If someone was abused as a child (made to masturbate), does this mean they reached puberty from that age?

Question Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

If one was made to masturbate, they are only considered to have reached puberty if ejaculate fluid exited. If no ejaculate fluid exited, regardless whether they felt a climax or not, they have not reached puberty.

The youngest possible age a male can experience ejaculation is twelve years old and for a female, nine years old. [Tahtawi/Shurunbulali, Hashiyat Maraqi al-Falah]

If you know of someone who has or is being abused or someone who abuses children and you have the ability to reach out to an authority for help, without bringing harm upon yourself in the process – you must take the means to stop this wrong by doing so.

Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch

Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch is a teacher of Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he then completed four years at the Darul Uloom seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences. He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he stayed for three years studying in Dar Al-Mustafa under some of the greatest scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib. In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Qur’an and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic history, and a number of texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.