O Ali, Allah selects the progeny of every messenger that He...

O Ali, Allah selects the progeny of every messenger that He chooses from that messenger's descendants, but He selects my progeny from your descendants. Without you, I would not have progeny. يا عليّ، أربعة من قواصم الظهر: إمام يعصي الله عزّ وجلّ ويطاع أمره، وزوجة يحفظها زوجها وهي تخونه، وفقر لا يجد صاحبه مداوياً، وجار سوء في دار المقام. يا عليّ، إنَّ عبد المطّلب سنّ في الجاهلية خمس سنن وأجراها الله عزّ وجلّ له في الإسلام.

O Ali, in the pre-Islamic era, Abdul-Muttalib passed five laws that Allah enacted in Islam. He forbade sons from marrying their fathers' women, and Allah revealed: "Do not marry, from now on, the ex-wives of your fathers." (4:22) As Abdul-Muttalib found a treasure, he gave its one-fifth as alms.

ولم يكن للطواف عدد عند قريش، فسنّ لهم عبد المطّلب سبعة أشواط، فأجرى الله عزّ وجلّ ذلك في الإسلام. يا عليّ، إنّ عبد المطّلب كان لا يستقسم بالأزلام، ولا يعبد الأصنام، ولا يأكل ما ذبح على النصب، ويقول: أنا على دين أبي إبراهيم عليه السلام. When he dug the Zamzam spring, he called it 'the watering of the pilgrims'.

Allah revealed: "Do you, because you served water to the pilgrims and constructed the Sacred Mosque, consider yourselves equal to those who have believed in Allah, the Day of Judgment, and have fought for the cause of Allah?" (9:19) For the Koreishites, they did not stop at a limited number of circumambulations around the Kaaba; hence, Abdul-Muttalib decided seven circulations for them. In Islam, Allah passed this law.