Hadith 111

And it is informed to me by Abu Al Fazl Shazan Bin Jibreel, from Al Karajaky, raising it, said, ‘Quraysh were afflicted with a destructive crisis and a year of killer drought, and Abu Talib-asws was with little wealth and a lot of dependants. It affected him-as what had affected Quraysh, from the having nothing, and the straitness, and the struggle, and the destitution. During that, Rasool-Allah-saww called his-as uncle Al-Abbas. He-as said to him: ‘O Abu Al-Fazl! Your brother-as is with a lot of dependants, dysfunctional state, weak of recovery and the strength, and it has befallen with him-as what has befallen from this crisis, and the ones with kinship are more rightful with the support, and foremost of the ones to carry the burden during the times of struggle. So, come with us-saww to him-as to assist him-as upon what he-as is upon, to carry part of his-as weight and lighten it from him-as from his-as dependants. Each one of us should take one of his-as sons so it would ease with that upon him-saww part of what he-as is in’. Al-Abbas said, ‘Good is what you-saww have viewed, and the correct in what you-saww have come with. By Allah-azwj! This is the honourable grave and the maintenance of the kinship’. They met Abu Talib-asws and advised patience to him-as and reminded him of merits of their fathers and said to him-as: ‘We want to carry part of the situation on your-as behalf, so hand over to us from your-as children one you-as the burdens would be lightened from you-as’. Abu Talib-asws said: ‘When you leave Aqeel and Talib for me-as, you can do whatever you so desire to’. So, Al-Abbas took Ja’far-as and Rasool-Allah-saww took Ali-asws. He-saww selected him-asws for himself-saww and chose him-asws for his-saww important matters, and placed him-asws in charge regarding his-saww secretive matters and his-as open ones, and he-asws laid himself-asws down for his-saww to his-saww instruction in accordance to the rightness in the entirety of his-saww situations’’. [183]
And it has been reported from another way, ‘Al-Abbas son of Abdul Muttalib-asws took Ja’far-as and Hamza-as) took Talib, and Rasool-Allah-saww took Ali-asws’’. [184]
And it is reported from another way, ‘Abu Talib-asws said to the Prophet-saww and Al-Abbas when they asked him-as what, ‘When you leave Aqeel to be for me-as, then take whoever you so desire to’, and he-as did not mention Talib-as’’. [185]