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Dec 2024
28m 26s

Abu Bakra (ra): The Freed Slave of Allah

YAQEEN INSTITUTE
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So often confused for Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (ra), this prolific narrator of hadith escaped Ta’if in such a unique way that he was named after this incident. After this lecture, you will never read his name as a typo again. 
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