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Transliteration of Arabic أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr, literally “father of a young camel; father of a person named Bakr”).
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Abu Bakr
Today it means: A senior companion, the closest friend, and, through the marriage of his daughter Aisha, the father-in-law of Muhammad, recognized in Sunni Islam as the first of Muhammad's rightly-guided successors (the Rashidun caliphs). Full definition →