He was instrumental in the conversion of many people to the Islamic faith and early in 623, Abu Bakr's daughter Aisha was married to Muhammad, strengthening the ties between the two men.

Abu Bakr's Caliphate lasted for a little over two years ( or 27 months ), ending with his death after an illness.

Abu Bakr's full name was ' Abd Allah ibn ' Uthman ibn Aamir ibn Amr ibn Ka ' ab ibn Sa ' ad ibn Taym ( from whom the at-Taymi al-Quraishi ) ibn Murrah ibn Ka ' ab ibn Lu ' ai ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr al-Quraishi.

Abu Bakr's acceptance proved to be a milestone in Muhammad's mission.

The second and third caliphs, Umar ibn Al-Khattab and Uthman ibn Affan, continued Abu Bakr's codification of the zakat.

It was this experience that led the second Caliph Umar to say that all the good Umar did cannot stand as an equivalent to Abu Bakr's sole virtue of companionship with Muhammad at the Thawr cave.

During the Ridda wars ( Wars of Apostasy ), Uthman remained at Medina, acting as Abu Bakr's adviser.

* Uthman Abu Qahafa was Abu Bakr's father

Troubles emerged soon after Abu Bakr's succession, when several Arab tribes openly revolted against Abu Bakr, who declared war against the rebels.

Abu Bakr's confidence grew, and once Khalid established his stronghold in Iraq, Abu Bakr issued a call to arms for the invasion of Syria in February 634.

In 1998, a number of militants began to speak openly of their disdain for Atef, leading Bin Laden to convene a meeting at which he spoke at length about Abu Bakr's loyalty to Muhammad.

It is not clear how many of the early Muslims supported Ali, or how long they held out against pressure from Abu Bakr's supporters.

So he seized Abu Bakr's hand and loudly swore the bay ' ah to him as the leader of the Muslims.

Soon after Abu Bakr's succession, several Arab tribes revolted, in the Ridda Wars ( Arabic for the Wars of Apostasy ).

When Abu Bakr's selection to the caliphate was presented as a fait accompli, Ali withheld his oaths of allegiance until after the death of Fatimah.

Fatima was buried in the night by Ali without any of Abu Bakr's supporters present and the location of her grave is still disputed.

Shi ' ites maintain that any narrations stating Ali agreed to Abu Bakr's selection are fabricated.

Umar immediately grabbed Abu Bakr's hand and gave him bay ' ah ( declared his allegiance ; an Arabian custom ) causing the rest of the men at the gathering to also give their bay ' ah.

Khalid bin Waleed's role as having led this bloodshed on Abu Bakr's behalf is widely condemned by Shias and a disagreement between Umar and Abu Bakr on Khalid's killings has also been recorded in both Sunni and Shi ' ite sources.

He was also a direct descendant of Abu Bakr from his maternal side, as well as being a paternal descendant of Ali from his father's side.

At the time of his accession and the elimination of Abu ' l Fazl, his father's chief minister and architect of his eclectic religious stance, a powerful group of orthodox noblemen had gained increased power in the Mughal court.

Abu Bakar was by then a very sick man when he reached England, and Tunku Ibrahim spent much of his time by his father's bedside before Abu Bakar died the following month.

Son of Abu Lahab, he married Muhammad's second daughter Ruqayyah, but divorced her on his father's request.

Son of Abu Lahab, he married Muhammad's third daughter Umm Kulthum, but divorced her on his father's request.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

Imam Malik, whose real name was Abu Abdullah, Malik bin Anas, was born in Medina in the year 715 AD.

Lindh went by the name Sulayman al-Faris during his time in Afghanistan, but prefers the name Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi today.

In January 1977, Abu Daoud was intercepted by French police in Paris while traveling from Beirut under an assumed name.

In the Swahili and Indonesian culture many of his stories are being told under the name of " Abunuwasi " or " Abunawas ", though this confuses Nasreddin with an entirely different man – the poet Abu Nuwas, known for homoerotic verse.

Perhaps for no other reason than the association of name, the 9th century Persian astronomer Abu Ma ' shar assumed Ptolemy to be member of Egypt's royal lineage, stating that the ten kings of Egypt who followed Alexander were wise " and included Ptolemy the Wise, who composed the book of the Almagest ".

There is little evidence on the subject of Ptolemy's ancestry, apart from what can be drawn from the details of his name ( see above ); however modern scholars refer to Abu Ma ’ shar ’ s account as erroneous, and it is no longer doubted that the astronomer who wrote the Almagest also wrote the Tetrabiblos as its astrological counterpart.

During the early 1950s, Arafat adopted the name Yasser, and in the early years of Arafat's guerrilla career, he assumed the nom de guerre of Abu Ammar.

Citing the example of one of the first written applications of the Arabic term hashish to the Ismailis by 13th century historian Abu Shama, de Sacy demonstrated its connection to the name given to the Ismailis throughout Western scholarship.

The quarrel was taken up by his brother Abdallah, known by the name of Abu al -' Abbas as-Saffah, who defeated the Umayyads in 750 in the Battle of the Zab near the Great Zab and was subsequently proclaimed caliph.

Qassem also told reporters that he had once escorted Abu Nidal, who was allegedly using the name Shakir Farhan, around town to buy a tie, without realizing who he was.

Ali Hassan Salameh (, ) ( 1940 – January 22, 1979 ) was the chief of operations — code name Abu Hassan — for Black September, the organization responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre and other attacks.

Bassam Abu Sharif in Damascus issued a statement in the name of the PFLP claiming responsibility.

ابوالفتح عمر بن ابراهیم Abu ' l-Fat ' h ' Umar ibn Ibrāhīm-Abu means father, Fat ' h means conqueror, ' Umar means life, Ibrahim is the name of the father.

According to their version, FSB knew about the terrorist group's arrival in Moscow and directed them to the theater through their agent provocateur Khanpasha Terkibayev (" Abu Bakar "), whose name was in list of hostage takers and who left the theater alive.

According to Ibn-Khaldun's comprehensive history of the Malian kings, Mansa Musa's grandfather was Abu-Bakr ( the Arabic equivalent to Bakari or Bogari, original name unknown-not the sahabiyy Abu Bakr ), a brother of Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Malian Empire as recorded through oral histories.

Originally known by his Hebrew name " Nethanel " Baruch ben Melech al-Balad later became known as Abu ' l-Barakat Hibat Allah ibn Ali ibn Malka al-Baghdadi was a Jewish philosopher and physicist and father-in-law of Maimonides who converted to Islam in his twilight years-once Head of the Baghdad Yeshiva and considered the leading philosopher of Iraq.

Citing the example of one of the first written applications of the Arabic term hashishi to the Ismailis by historian Abu Shams ( d. 1267 ), de Sacy demonstrated its connection to the name given to the Ismailis throughout Western scholarship.

Abu Hamza () meaning father of Hamza, is a given name and a common alias used by several people, it may refer to:

His full name was Abu Said Abdul Rahman ibn Abdullah ibn Bishr ibn Al Sarem Al ' Aki Al Ghafiqi.