Who Was Alive

Abu Bakr

1st Rashidun Caliph and father-in-law of Muhammad

Born c. AD 573 · died 23 August AD 634

Who was alive at the same time as Abu Bakr?

Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Abu Bakr died, Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib was 35, Aisha was 19 or 20, Husayn ibn Ali was 8 and Mu'awiya I was 30 or 31.

Born during Abu Bakr’s lifetime: Umar ibn Al-Khattāb, Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Brahmagupta, Aisha, Husayn ibn Ali, Fatima and Mu'awiya I.

Not quite contemporaries: Justinian I died 6 years before Abu Bakr was born.

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