Şîa’da Bir Hidâyet Rehberi Olarak Ehl-i Beyt ve "Nûh’un Gemisi" Benzetmesi

According to the Shi’a, ahl al-bayt (prophet's family), has some peculiarities that other muslims have not. The most important of these peculiarities is that the ahl al-bayt is to be preserved from sins. With this peculiarity, ahl al-bayt is a guide of right way. According to the Shi’a, there is a lot of verses of Quran and hadiths that indicate this peculiarity of ahl al-bayt. One of the most important hadiths is as known "Ship Hadith" that: "My ahl al-bayt resembles to the Noah's ship. Who embarks this ship is prospered, who not embark is drowned". According to the Shi’a, there is an agreement among müslim scholars on that this hadith is sound (sahih) and is even generally admitted (mutevatir). In addition to the Shi’a, a lot of Sunni scholars mentioned this hadith in their books. In this article, first of all, Shi’a’s hadith perceiving has been studied with main frames and then value of this hadith has been searched through the narratives in the Shiite and Sünni sources by comparison of the Hadith Methodology.

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