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Aisha
Aisha bint Abi Bakr was a wife of the Prophet Muhammad and daughter of the first caliph, Abu Bakr. She was an important transmitter of hadith and a respected religious authority. During the First Fitna she opposed the caliph Ali and was defeated at the Battle of the Camel in 656, part of the civil strife that marked the decline of the Rashidun Caliphate.
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