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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
  1. Rashidun Caliph Abu Bakr as-Șiddīq (Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafa) - أبو بكر الصديق عبد الله بن عثمان التيمي القرشي أول الخلفاء الراشدين 1st 8 June 632 CE – 22 August 634 CE Abu Bakr 1st Rashidun Caliph and father-in-law of Muhammad
  2. Rashidun Caliphs Umar ibn Al-Khattāb - عُمر بن الخطّاب ثاني الخلفاء الراشدين 2nd 22 August 634 CE – 3 November 644 CE Umar ibn Al-Khattāb 2nd Rashidun Caliph from 634 to 644
  3. 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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