Editing Abu Bakr (section)

=== al-Siddiq ===
He was called {{Transliteration|ar|al-Ṣiddīq}} ("the truthful")<ref name="Campo2">{{Cite book |last=Campo |first=Juan Eduardo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OZbyz_Hr-eIC&pg=PP1 |title=Encyclopedia of Islam |date=15 April 2009 |publisher=[[Infobase|Infobase Publishing]] |isbn=9781438126968 |via=Google Books}}</ref> by Muhammad after he believed him in the event of [[Isra and Mi'raj]] when many people did not, and [[Ali]] confirmed that title several times.<ref>Abi Na'eem, "Ma'arifat al-sahaba", no. 64, 65</ref> He was also reportedly referred to in the [[Quran]] as the "second of the two in the cave" in reference to the event of [[Hijra (Islam)|hijra]], where with Muhammad he hid in the cave in [[Jabal Thawr]] from the [[Mecca]]n party that was sent after them.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=focLrox-frUC&pg=PP1 |title=The New Encyclopedia of Islam |first=Cyril |last=Glassé |date=15 April 2003 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield|Rowman Altamira]] |isbn=9780759101906 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

While traditional sources translate this epithet as "the truthful", an equally likely interpretation is "the tax collector" (i.e., the collector of {{Transliteration|ar|[[Sadaqah|ṣadaqa]]}}).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Donner |first=Fred M. |author-link=Fred Donner |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Muhammad_and_the_Believers/qBzRj7OajmEC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Muhammad and the Believers - At the Origins of Islam |date=2010 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=978-0-674-05097-6 |page=102 |language=en}}</ref>