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Abdullah Bin Abi Bakr Al-Siddiq ⁽¹⁾: Abdullah Bin Abi Bakr Al-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with him, was from the tribe of Taym, a sub-clan of the tribe of Quraysh. He was a Sahabi (Companion) from the first generation of Muslims and the brother of Asma Bint Abi Bakr Al-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with her and her father.

Ibn Ishaq said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, spent three days in the cave with Abu Bakr, and when they knew he was gone, Quraysh offered a hundred she-camels to whomever returned him to them. Abdullah Bin Abi Bakr would be with the people of Quraysh during the day, listening to their plots against the Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him and his family) and Abu Bakr. He would then go to them in the evening and bring them the news. Aamer Bin Fuhaira, a servant of Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, was a shepherd in Makkah. During the evenings, he would bring them Abu Bakr’s sheep to be milked and slaughtered. Then when Abdullah Bin Abi Bakr would leave them to return to Makkah, Aamer Bin Fuhaira would follow with the sheep to cover his tracks. Three days passed before people stopped searching for them. After that, a person they hired would come to them with two camels for them and one for him, and Asma Bint Abi Bakr, may Allah be pleased with her, would come with their food.

The chroniclers of the Prophet’s battles mentioned that Abdullah Bin Abi Bakr was struck by an arrow during the Siege of Ta’if and sustained injuries. His wound healed and then flared up again. He died in Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah during the caliphate of his father in Shawwal of 11 AH (632 AD).

It was narrated on the authority of Al-Qasim Bin Muhammad Bin Abi Bakr that he said ⁽²⁾: 

Abdullah Bin Abi Bakr was struck by an arrow during the Siege of Ta’if, killing him forty nights after the death of Allah’s Messenger, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him and his family, whereupon Abu Bakr went to Aisha and said: “O Daughter, by Allah, it is as though a goat has been taken by its ear out of our home.”

In response, Aisha said: “Praise be to Allah, who gave your heart strength and made you steadfast.”

Abu Bakr then left and came back again and said: “O Daughter, are you worried that you may have buried Abdullah whilst he was still alive?”

She said: “To Allah we belong, and to Allah we return, O Father.”

He said: “I seek refuge with Allah, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing, from Satan the accursed. O Daughter, everyone has two influences upon him: An influence from an angel and an influence from the devil.”

He said: Then the delegation of Thaqif came to him, and he still had that arrow with him, so he showed it to them and said: “Do any of you recognize this arrow?”

In response, Sa’d Bin Ubaid of Bani Al-Ajlan said: “This is an arrow that I sharpened, feathered, and strung—and I am the one who shot it,” whereupon Abu Bakr said: “This is the arrow that killed Abdullah Bin Abi Bakr, so praise be to Allah, He who honored him through your hands and did not humiliate you through his hands—because He is the best of protectors.”

–End of Citation.

Other reports say that it was actually Aba Muhjin Al-Thaqafi who killed Abdullah Bin Abi Bakr.

Abdullah Bin Abi Bakr married Aatika Bint Zaid Bin ‘Amr Bin Nufail of the tribe of ‘Adiy, another sub-clan of the tribe of Quraysh. He was in so love with her that she distracted him from his responsibilities, so his father told him to divorce her, which he did. He regretted this, however, and composed poetry for her saying that he would never forget her so long as a single star remained shining in the sky. He extolled her virtues, recalling her wisdom, morals and honesty, and lamented:

I have never known a man like me to divorce a woman like her –

Nor any woman like her divorced for no good reason.

When Abu Bakr heard this, he sympathized with Abdullah and ordered him to take back his wife, which he did—and he died while still married to her forty nights after the death of Allah’s Messenger, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him and his family. Umar, Talha, and Abdel-Rahman Bin Abi Bakr all laid him to rest.

Abdullah was regarded as one of the martyrs of Ta’if, and his wife, Aatika, elegized him with several verses of poetry, saying (among other things): I was blessed with the best of people after the Prophet and Abu Bakr, a man who was not ever negligent of his duties. I vow that my soul will remain in sorrow over thee, and my skin will remain dusty. She also praised his bravery, saying that in the heat of battle, he would “fight to the death, leaving the spear red” (with blood).

Abdullah’s only son was Isma’il, who died leaving no further descendants, meaning that the line of Abdullah Bin Abi Bakr Al-Siddiq’s progeny, may Allah be pleased with him and his father, ended with him.

Source: Kitab Al-Sulala Al-Bakria As-Siddiqia – Part II, by Ahmed Farghal Al-De’abassi Al-Bakri

Date of Publication

1 Ramadan 1438 AH / May 26, 2017 AD

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(2) Al-Mustadrak alaa Al-Sahihain, by Al-Hakim 3/ 543