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Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ

Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr

Biography

Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr was the son of Abū Bakr aṣ-Ṣiddīq and Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays, born around the time of Abū Bakr's death, his mother was pregnant with him when the first caliph passed away. He was raised largely in the household of his mother's third husband, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, and grew up to become a prominent figure in the political turmoil of the mid-first century AH, later serving as governor of Egypt under ʿAlī's caliphate.

Significance

Son of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, born around his father's death; raised in the household of his mother's later husband Ali ibn Abi Talib and became a prominent political figure of the following generation

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