Muhammad’s companion Abu Bakr, choosing instead to follow others who claimed prophetic status. For one year these factions ...

According to the UNSC, Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani was the leader of Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, a Syria-based ...

He is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brooding muezzin of ... A member of an Iraqi tribe that claims lineal descent from the Prophet Muhammad, al-Baghdadi turned an early affinity for Quranic recitation ...

who ruled from 632 until 634 after the death of Muhammad and was also his father-in-law. In the program a guest allegedly described Abu Bakr as “cursed and snide,” claiming to curse the caliph ...