SHIPS OF SALVATION (SUFUN AL-NAJAAT)
Al-Qanduzi, the Hanafite narrator of traditions in his radiant collection Yanabi’ al-Mawadda (lit. Fountains of Stable Love) narrates that Abu Dharr is reported to have quoted the Holy Prophet (s) as having said: The similitude of my progeny among you is that of the ship of Nuh (‘a), whosoever boards it, is emancipated, and whosoever does not perishes. And once Imam al-Sadiq (‘a) was asked about the prophetic tradition “Surely Husayn is the lamp of guidance and the ship of salvation” saying: “Aren’t you [the Ahl al-Bayt (‘a)] the ships of salvation [too]?" The Imam (‘a) replied: “All of us are the ships of salvation, however the ship of al-Husayn (‘a) is more spacious and faster."