Abu Bakr Abdullah ibn Uthman Abi Quhafa (Arabic: أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَبْدُ ٱللهِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ ابي قحافة; c. 573 CE – 23 August 634 CE) was the closest companion and, through his daughter Aisha, a father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, as well as the first of the Rashidun Caliphs.
Abu Bakr Abdullah ibn Uthman Abi Quhafa (Arabic: أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَبْدُ ٱللهِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ ابي قحافة; c. 573 CE – 23 August 634 CE) was the closest companion and, through his daughter Aisha, a father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, as capably as the first of the Rashidun Caliphs.
Abu Bakr became one of the first converts to Islam and extensively contributed his loads in support of Muhammad’s work. He was in the midst of Muhammad’s closest companions, accompanying him upon his migration to Medina and being present at a number of his military conflicts, such as the battles of Badr and Uhud.
Following Muhammad’s death in 632, Abu Bakr succeeded in the leadership of the Muslim community as the first Rashidun Caliph. During his reign, he overcame a number of uprisings, collectively known as the Ridda wars, as a consequences of which he was skillful to consolidate and forward movement the judge of the Muslim state more than the entire Arabian Peninsula. He afterward commanded the initial incursions into the neighbouring Sassanian and Byzantine empires, which in the years considering his death, would eventually consequences in the Muslim conquests of Persia and the Levant. Abu Bakr died of disease after a reign of 2 years, 2 months and 14 days.