Caliph Uthman Murdered: June 16th, 656.(Uthman ibn Affan)(Biography)

From: History Today | Date: June 1, 2006 | Copyright information

The first two Caliph, or 'successors' to the Prophet Muhammad, who left no male heir when he died in his early sixties in 632, were Abu Bakr and Umar, who presided over the campaigns which carried Islam outside Arabia into Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt and North Africa. Both men had been friends and disciples of Muhammad since the early days in Mecca and they were the fathers of two of his wives. Another obvious candidate for the caliphate was Ali ibn abu Talib, Muha...

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