Editing Abu Bakr (section)

== Appearance ==
The historian [[Al-Tabari]], in regards to Abu Bakr's appearance, records the following interaction between Aisha and her paternal nephew, Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr:<ref name=TabariBlankinshipP138-39>{{cite book |last1=Al-Tabari |first1=Muhammad ibn Jarir |last2=Blankinship |first2=Khalid Yahya |author-link1=Al-Tabari |author-link2=Khalid Yahya Blankinship |title=The History of al-Tabari, Volume XI - The Challenge to the Empires |date=1993 |pages=138–139 |url=https://archive.org/stream/TabariEnglish/Tabari_Volume_11#page/n175/mode/2up}}</ref>

<blockquote> When she was in her [[howdah]] and saw a man from among the Arabs passing by, she said, "I have not seen a man more like Abu Bakr than this one." We said to her, "Describe Abu Bakr." She said, "A slight, white man, thin-bearded and bowed. His waist wrapper would not hold but would fall down around his loins. He had a lean face, sunken eyes, a bulging forehead, and trembling knuckles".</blockquote>

Referencing another source, Al-Tabari further describes him as being "white mixed with yellowness, of good build, slight, 
bowed, thin, tall like a male palm tree, hook-nosed, lean-faced, sunken-eyed, thin-shanked, and strong-thighed. He used to dye himself with [[henna]] and black dye".<ref name=TabariBlankinshipP138-39/>