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Abn Bakr
IDENTIFICATION: Early Arab caliph
BORN: c . 573, Mecca, Arabia( right away in Saudi Arabia)
DIED: Aug twenty-three, 634, Medina, Arabia( right away in Saudi Arabia)
TYPE OF ETHICS: Religious ethics
SIGNIFICANCE: Abn Bakr succeeded a Prophet Muwammad as a initial caliph as good as stretched a nascent Muslim sovereignty by subduing adjacent states.
One of a initial persons to modify to Islam, Abn Bakr lent much-needed credit to a means of Prophet Muwammad during a early days of Islam . He belonged to a abounding trade family as good as was a consequential figure in upon condition that dignified as good as monetary await to means Muwammad in Mecca during a time that Mu-wammad spoken his prophethood . A tighten rela¬tionship in between a dual group was serve strengthened by marital family . Abn Bakr gave dual of his daughters in matrimony to Muwammad . A single of them, Khadtja, was usually thirteen years of age when she tied together Muwammad.
Muwammad gave Abn Bakr a pretension Siddiq, a single who regularly speaks law, since he became a footman of Muwammad during a time when it was not protected for Muslims to exhibit their devotion plainly . Abn Bakr is ostensible to have accompanied Muwammad during a time of their moody from Mecca to a city of Medina, that supposing a protected breakwater to Muwammad as good as his supporters . Abn Bakr remained tighten to a Prophet in Mecca as good as in Medina as good as assisted him in apropos determined in Medina . Abn Bakr negotiated upon interest of a Prophet with alternative clans in as good as around Medina whose await was consequential in a onslaught opposite a Meccans . A Quraish clan of Mecca attempted to impetus upon Medina to fall short Muwammad’s forces 3 times though unsuccessful . After a genocide of Muwammad, Abn Bakr was selected to lead a Muslims . He insincere a pretension caliph, or successor.
Khalid N . Mahmood
SEE ALSO: 4Alt ibn Abt Z3lib; Holy war; Wusayn; Is¬lamic ethics; Muwammad; Sht4a.