17. ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm narrated from his father, and Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, all from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Naṣr, from Abān, from Abī Baṣīr, from Abū Jaʿfar al-Baqir , who said:

"The sons of Ismāʿīl were the custodians of the House (Kaaba) and established for the people their pilgrimage and the affairs of their religion. They inherited this responsibility from elder to elder until the time of ʿAdnān ibn ʾUdd. Then a long period passed, their hearts became hardened, and they became corrupt, introducing innovations in their religion. Some of them expelled others, so some left in search of a livelihood while others left due to their aversion to fighting. In their hands, they had many things from the Hanīfiyyah, including the prohibition of mothers and daughters and what Allah prohibited in marriage, except that they used to consider permissible the wife of a father, the daughter of a sister, and marrying two sisters. They still had the rites of pilgrimage, the *talbiyyah*, and the washing from ritual impurity, except that they introduced polytheism into their *talbiyyah* and their pilgrimage. And there was a messenger between Ismāʿīl and ʿAdnān ibn ʾUdd, namely Mūsā ."