Hazrath Abu Bakr Siddiq

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THE WISAAL SHAREEF OF

HAZRAT ABU BAKR SIDDIQ (‫)رض هللا عنه‬


22ND JAMADAL AKHIR
BORN
HAZRAT ABU BAKR SIDDIQ (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬WAS BORN IN MAKKAH IN THE YEAR 573 AD, TWO YEARS AND SOME MONTHS AFTER THE
BIRTH OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD‫ﷺ‬. HAZRAT ABU BAKR (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬WAS BROUGHT UP BY DECENT PARENTS, THUS HE GAINED
A CONSIDERABLE SELF-ESTEEM AND NOBLE STATUS. HIS FATHER UTHMAN ABU QUHAFAH ACCEPTED ISLAM ON THE DAY OF
VICTORY IN MAKKAH. HIS MOTHER SALMA BINT SAKHAR, ALSO KNOWN AS UMM AL KHAIR, EMBRACED ISLAM EARLY, AND
MIGRATED TO MADINAH
ACCEPTING ISLAM
HAZRAT ABU BAKR SIDDQ (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬ACCEPTED ISLAM AFTER A LONG SEARCH FOR THE TRUE RELIGION. IN FACT, HE
WAS THE FIRST MAN TO RESPOND AND BELIEVE IN PROPHET MUHAMMAD‫ﷺ‬. HIS IMMEDIATE ACCEPTANCE FOR ISLAM WAS A
CONSEQUENCE OF THE STEADFAST FRIENDSHIP WITH THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD‫ﷺ‬. HAZRAT ABU BAKR (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬KNEW THE
PROPHET‫ ﷺ‬AS A TRUTHFUL, HONEST, AND NOBLE PERSON, THAT HE HAS NEVER BEEN UNTRUTHFUL TO PEOPLE, SO HOW HE
WOULD BE UNTRUTHFUL TO ALLAH?
TITLE
AS-SIDDIQ, THE MOST WELL-KNOWN OF HAZRAT ABU BAKR'S (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬TITLES, COMES FROM THE WORD ‘SIDQ’ WHICH MEANS
TRUTHFULNESS. THEREFORE, THE WORD AS-SIDDIQ MEANS A PERSON WHO IS CONSTANTLY TRUTHFUL OR WHO CONSTANTLY
BELIEVES IN THE TRUTHFULNESS OF SOMETHING OR SOMEONE. IN HAZRAT ABU BAKR'S (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬CASE, IN THE TRUTHFULNESS OF
THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD‫ﷺ‬. THE TITLE 'AS-SIDDIQ' WAS GIVEN TO HAZRAT ABU BAKR (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬BY NONE OTHER THAN THE
HOLY PROPHET‫ﷺ‬
HIS ROLE IN BATTLES OF BADR AND UHUD
IN THE BATTLE OF BADR, HAZRAT ABU BAKR (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬WAS ONE OF THE GUARDS OF PROPHET’S‫ ﷺ‬TENT AND WAS ENTRUSTED
WITH HIS SAFETY. IN THE BATTLE OF UHUD, WHICH TOOK PLACE THE FOLLOWING YEAR AFTER BADR, THE DISBELIEVERS WON THE
BATTLE BECAUSE THE ARCHERS LEFT THEIR PLACES ON THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN OF UHUD. ONLY A DOZEN PEOPLE STAYED WITH
THE PROPHET ‫ ﷺ‬ON THIS OCCASION, ONE OF WHOM WAS THE STAUNCH BELIEVER HAZRAT ABU BAKR (‫)رض هللا عنه‬
HIS SPENDING FOR ALLAH’S‫ ﷻ‬SAKE
ALLAH'S MESSENGER ‫ ﷺ‬ONCE SAID ABOUT HAZRAT ABU BAKR (‫)رض هللا عنه‬
“NO ONE HAS HELPED ME WITHOUT RECIPROCATING IT, EXCEPT FOR ABU BAKR, WHO HAS GIVEN ME HELP,
WHICH ALLAH‫ ﷻ‬WILL RECIPROCATE TO HIM ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION. NO ONE'S PROPERTY HAS BENFITED ME
TO THE EXTENT OF ABU BAKR'S AND IF I WERE TO TAKE A KHALIL (FRIEND), THEN I WOULD HAVE TAKEN
ABU BAKR AS A KHALIL, AND INDEED YOUR COMPANION IS ALLAH'S‫ ﷻ‬KHALIL.” [TIRMIDHI]
HAZRAT ABU BAKR (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬HAD ALSO LIBERATED MANY SLAVES AS HE FELT COMPASSION FOR THEM. AS PER SOURCES,
HE PURCHASED AND FREED EIGHT SLAVES, FOUR MEN AND FOUR WOMEN, BY PAYING FORTY THOUSAND DINARS
FOR THEIR FREEDOM. HAZRAT BILAL BIN RIBAH (‫)رض هللا عنه‬, ONE OF THE MOST LOYAL AND TRUSTED COMPANIONS OF
PROPHET MUHAMMAD‫ﷺ‬, WAS ONE OF THE SALVES THAT HAZRAT ABU BAKR (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬FREED FROM SLAVERY
COMPILATION OF THE HOLY QURAN
ONE OF THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS HAZRAT ABU BAKR SIDDIQ (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬RENDERED TO ISLAM WAS THE COMPILATION OF
THE HOLY QURAN. AT THAT TIME, THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF MEMORIZERS WHO HAD MEMORIZED THE ENTIRE
QURAN AMONG THE COMPANIONS DURING THE LIFETIME OF THE PROPHET‫ﷺ‬, BUT THE HOLY QURAN HAD NEVER BEEN
COMPLIED IN A BOOK-FORM, ALTHOUGH ITS MEMORIZATION CONTINUED AFTER THE PASSING AWAY OF THE PROPHET‫ﷺ‬
KHILAFAT
AFTER THE PASSING AWAY OF THE MESSENGER‫ ﷺ‬OF ALLAH‫ﷻ‬, HAZRAT ABU BAKR (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬WAS
UNANIMOUSLY ACCEPTED CALIPH. HOWEVER, HE HAD FACED MANY CRISES AFTER BECOMING CALIPH.
HIS DEMISE AND BURIAL PLACE
HAZRAT ABU BAKR SIDDIQ (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬LEFT THIS WORLD ON MONDAY, 22ND OF JUMADA AL-AKHIRAH AFTER SUFFERING FROM
FEVER FOR 15 DAYS DURING WHICH HE GAVE INSTRUCTIONS THAT HAZRAT UMAR BIN KHATTAB (‫ )رض هللا عنه‬SHOULD
LEAD THE PRAYERS. HE WAS BURIED ALONGSIDE THE HOLY PROPHET‫ ﷺ‬IN MASJID-E-NABAWI.

MAY ALLAH‫ ﷻ‬SHOWER HIS INFINITE MERCY UPON OUR MASTER‫ﷺ‬,


HIS FAMILY MEMBERS AND COMPANIONS ‫رض هللا عنهم أجمعي‬
AMEEN – YA RABBAL ALIMEEN

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