abu bakr

/AE1 B UW0 B AE0 K R/
noun
  1. 1

    (Islam) 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).

  2. 2

    A male given name from Arabic.