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 | | Abu Bakr had scarcely assumed his new position (632), under the titleKhalifet-Rasul-Allah ("successor of the prophet of God"), when he had to suppress the revolt of some tribes in Hejaz and Nejd, of which the former rejected Islam and thelatter refused to pay tribute. |
 | | He encountered formidable opposition from different quarters, but in every case he provedsuccessful, the severest struggle taking place with the impostor Mosailima, whom Khalid bin Walid finally defeated at the battle of Akraba. |
 | | After the hard-won victory over Mosailima, Omar, fearingthe complete loss of the sayings of the prophet when those who had listened to them had all died, induced Abu-Bakr to see totheir preservation in a written form. |
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