Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr

‘Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr (Arabic: عبدالله ابن أبي بكر‎‎) (c.610-633) was a son of Abu Bakr the first Caliph, a brother of Aisha and a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

He was born in Mecca, the son of Abu Bakr ibn Abi Quhafa, from the Taym clan of the Quraysh tribe, and of Qutaylah bint Abd-al-Uzza, who was from the Amir ibn Luayy clan. His parents were divorced soon before or soon after his birth.

When Muhammad and Abu Bakr fled from Mecca in September 622, Abu Bakr instructed Abdallah to listen to adult conversations and to report the day's news to them at the cave on Mount Thawr each night. Abdullah duly reported that the Quraysh had offered a hundred camels to anyone who captured Muhammad. Each morning, when he left the cave, the family servant would lead a flock of sheep over the same route to cover his tracks.

A few months later, Abdullah emigrated to Medina in the company of his stepmother and two sisters.

In 630 Abdullah fought at the Siege of Ta'if, where the Thaqafite poet, Abu Mihjan, shot him with an arrow. This wound ultimately caused his death, although he survived for nearly three years afterwards.

He married Atiqa bint Zayd, a poet from the Adi clan of the Quraysh. This marriage was childless. It was said that Abdullah respected Atiqa's judgment more than his own and that he spent so much time with her that he neglected his duties to the Islamic state. Abu Bakr punished his son by ordering him to divorce her. Abdullah did as he was told but was grief-stricken. He wrote poetry for Atiqa:

I have never known a man like me divorce a woman like her,
nor any woman like her divorced for no fault of her own.

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