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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
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Who held it, in order
A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.
- 3 holders
- 1 gap
- 1 step named in the records
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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 -
Gap about 12 years with no holder recorded
4th 656 CE – 27 January 661 CE Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib 4th Rashidun Caliph (r. 656–661) and first Shia Imam
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