I -asws , Ya Rasool Allah -saww would become your -saww Vizier.

I -asws , Ya Rasool Allah -saww would become your -saww Vizier.” So Rasool Allah -saww took me -asws and said: “this is my -saww brother -asws , and my -saww successor -asws , and my -saww Caliph among you, therefore listen to him -asws and obey.”’ So, the people got up and they were laughing and saying to Syed Abu Talib -asws , that the Prophet -saww had ordered him to listen to Imam Ali -asws and therefore obey his own son.

[11] Shiab-e-Abi Talib -asws (Valley of Abu Talib -asws ): Year 5-1 B.H. [12] This is the valley of Syed Abu Talib -asws (Shiab-e-Abi Talib -asws ), where the members of Banu Hashim were forced to take refuge from the infidels of Makkah and lived there during a painful social boycott for three years.

When Islam began to spread, the Makkahns asked Abu Talib -asws , the uncle and protector of the Prophet -saww , to hand the Prophet -saww over to them for execution, but Abu Talib -asws steadfastly refused. Abu Talib -asws immediately called on the members of Banu Hashim to meet at the Ka’bah (the House of Allah -azwj ) and convinced them to pledge that they would protect, at any cost, Mohammed -saww Ibn Abd Allah (Rasool Allah -saww ).

The Quraysh held a meeting and decided to outcast the Banu Hashim by placing them under a total social boycott. The conditions of the agreement were, the other clans from the Quraysh would neither marry their daughters, nor buy nor sell to them, nor keep company with them, nor would they accept any peace offer from them until they handed over the Prophet -saww to them. Once, all the people present had agreed with the points mentioned above, they put this pact in writing.

The Quraysh chiefs signed this document and the parchment was secured inside the Ka’bah (the House of Allah -azwj ). At this point, Abu Talib -asws gathered the forty members of the Bani Hashim clan and took them to ‘Shiab-e-Abi Talib -asws ’ in order to protect the life of the Holy Prophet -saww . Syed Abu Talib -asws closed down all sides of the ‘Shiab-e-Abi Talib -asws ’ and started protecting Rasool Allah -saww day and night.

Abu Talib -asws , would un-shield his -asws sword during night and walk around the valley for the security of Rasool Allah -saww , though he -asws would not settle on that. He -asws would also change the sleeping place of Rasool Allah -saww several times during the night and would usually move his son Ali -asws Ibn Abi Talib -asws at the place of Rasool Allah -saww .