Muhammad’s companion Abu Bakr, choosing instead to follow others who claimed prophetic status. For one year these factions vied for control of population centers in Arabia before those faithful ...

Sunni close SunniMuslims who believe in the successorship of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali as leaders of the Muslim community after the Prophet Muhammad. Muslims only combine the five daily ...

Sunni close SunniMuslims who believe in the successorship of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali as leaders of the Muslim community after the Prophet Muhammad. Muslims specifically set the duties out ...

"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead ... His family claimed to descend from the Prophet Muhammad's tribe, which made it possible for al-Baghdadi to later become the leader of the Islamic caliphate.