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There were FOUR Rightly-Guided Caliphs after Muhammad's death (Abu Bakr, Omar, Othman, and Ali). After Ali was assassinated, the Umayyads swept into power, ending the age of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs and beginning a more imperial form of government.
There were FOUR Rightly-Guided Caliphs after Muhammad's death (Abu Bakr, Omar, Othman, and Ali). After Ali was assassinated, the Umayyads swept into power, ending the age of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs and beginning a more imperial form of government.
Umayyad Caliph Ibrahim ruled for a few weeks at the end of the year 744 C.E. This is the shortest reign of any Caliph.If you are referring to the Rightly-Guided Caliphs, Hassan ibn Ali ruled as Caliph for seven months in 661 C.E. before ceding power to Mu'awiya and conceding the end of the the Rightly-Guided Caliphs. Of the four dominant Rightly-Guided Caliphs, colleague Ibrahim El-Osery is correct that Abu Bakr ibn Quhafah reigned for the the shortest amount of time, 27 months from 632 C.E. to 634 C.E.
The capital of the Rightly-Guided Caliphate was MEDINAduring the reigns of Abu Bakr, 'Omar, and 'Othman. They used the infrastructure left over from when Muhammad had ruled the Islamic Polity from Medina. However, when 'Ali took power, he felt that he needed to put his capital in the Upper Middle East, so he moved it to KUFA. After 'Ali's death, the Rightly-Guided Caliphate was abolished by the Umayyads.
They are: Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique, Hazrat Umar Farooq, Hazrat Usman Ghani, Hazrat Ali (May Allah be pleased with them all).
To rule according to the teachings of Islam. Being just, kind and caring to all the people living under them.
No because the group of caliphs the Umayyad ruled from Damascus
Only the first Four Caliphs are called the Rightly Guided Caliphs because they were the most near ones and loved ones of the Holy Prophet SAW. They ruled according to the teachings of the Qur'an and the Sunnah.
It depends how you read this question.If by the "the Caliphs" you are referring to the four Rightly-Guided Caliphs, they were followed by Mu'awiya, the founder of the Umayyad Dynasty of Caliphs. If you are referring to the Caliphate as an institution, it was abolished in 1924 by the Republic of Turkey. However, most Muslim countries had operated with sovereign governments during the period of the Caliphate (in much the same way that most Catholic countries are not directly ruled by the Pope) and even the Caliph in the Ottoman Empire was purely a religious authority since the Ottoman Sultan wielded political power.
The first Rightly Guided Caliph Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique RAU.
No because the group of caliphs the Umayyad ruled from Damascus
No because the group of caliphs the Umayyad ruled from Damascus