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Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr

عبد الله بن أبي بكر

c. 693 CE · c. 74 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Abu Bakr's son, 'a bright, quick-witted youth' in Aisha's description, who spent the three cave nights with the fugitives, left before dawn to mingle with Quraysh by day, and brought them the news each evening.

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Roles
Companion
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
Identifiers
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Life in time

625650675700725750775800 c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Malik ibn Umayr · A'isha bint Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas · Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran · al-Ruqi · Amr ibn Dinar

Refugees, migrants and diaspora

Place in the story

  • CompanionTradition

Sunni (transmitted)

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Summary

Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr (may God be pleased with him), the eyes of intelligence on the Prophet ﷺ and his father during the nights of the cave 1.

His role

His sister A'isha described him as "a sharp-witted, quick-grasping youth"; he would spend the night with them in the cave, then slip out before dawn and appear among Quraysh at Mecca as one who had slept there — nothing he heard being plotted against them but he memorised and brought them when darkness fell 2. Amir ibn Fuhayra would trail him with his sheep to erase his tracks 2.

After the hijra

After the hijra he led his father's household to Medina, A'isha among them 3 4. He was killed at al-Ta'if in Ibn al-Zubayr's war, on the well-known account 5.

Connections

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Child of
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
Member of
The early Muslim community
Participated in
The three nights in the cave of Thawr· The Hijra· The Prophet's escape from his house on the night of the Hijra and the hiding in the cave of Thawr

People and things also explored

The Hijra· Amir ibn Fuhayra· Mecca· Abu Bakr al-Siddiq· Asma bint Abi Bakr· The Battle of Badr· The three nights in the cave of Thawr· Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah

Sources

  1. Sahih al-Bukhari
  2. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p. 165
  3. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p. 173
  4. Zad al-Ma'ad — Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya
  5. al-Tabaqat al-Kubra — Ibn Sa'd
  • al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
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The Hijra

The migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE, the event from which the Islamic calendar is counted.