Office Islam
Rashidun
الخلفاء الراشدون ar خلفای راشدین fa
The four caliphs who, from the point of view of the Sunnis, held the caliphate after Muhammad
- Also called Rashidun Caliph, Caliph
A seat,
and those
who held it.
Holders in order
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Succession in office
Who held it, in order
A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.
- 3 holders
- 1 gap
- 1 step named in the records
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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1st 8 June 632 CE – 22 August 634 CE Abu Bakr 1st Rashidun Caliph and father-in-law of Muhammad -
2nd 22 August 634 CE – 3 November 644 CE Umar ibn Al-Khattāb 2nd Rashidun Caliph from 634 to 644 Has references -
Gap about 12 years with no holder recorded
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4th 656 CE – 27 January 661 CE Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib 4th Rashidun Caliph (r. 656–661) and first Shia Imam
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one holder followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates.
Connections
How Rashidun connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 3
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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