Lineage & Parents

When we go back seven generations in the ancestry of Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra), we reach Murrah, through whom his ancestry is also connected to the Holy Prophet (sa).

(Muhammad Husain Haikal, Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq – Urdu Translation by Anjuman Sultan [Jehlum, Pakistan: Shahbaz Bok Corner Showroom], p. 57)

Similarly, going back six generations, the lineage of Hazrat Abu Bakr’s (ra) mother, maternally and paternally, also connects to the Holy Prophet (sa).

(Abdul Malik Mujahid, Syeduna Abu Bakr Siddiq ki Zindagi ke Sunehre Waqi‘at [Dar al-Salam], p. 29)

Umm-ul-Khair, who was the wife of Abu Quhafah, i.e. the father of Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra), was the daughter of his paternal uncle.

(Ibn Hisham, Al-Raud al-Unf, Vol. 1, Islam Abi Bakr [Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Edition 1], p. 430)

That is, the mother of Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) was the daughter of Hazrat Abu Bakr’s (ra) father’s paternal cousin. Hazrat Abu Bakr’s (ra) parents were still alive at the time of his demise and they received the inheritance of their son, Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra). After his demise, his mother passed away first.

(Ali Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah fi Ma‘rifat al-Sahabah, Vol. 7, Ummul Khair bint Sakhr, Zair Harf al-Kha [Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Fikr, 2008], pp. 314-315)

His father passed away in the 14th year after Hijrah at the age of 97.

(Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Al-Isabah fi Tamyiz al-Sahabah, Vol. 3, Harf al-Ain, Zair Lafz Uthman bin Amir [Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Kutub al-Fikr, 2001], p. 424)