✦⋆· said,"The likeness of my Ahlul-Bayt (progeny) amongst my Ummah (followers) is similar to Noah's Ark. Those who embarked on it were rescued and those who rejected it perished."

● "Train your children in three things: the love of your Prophet, the love of his progeny, i.e. AhlulBayt, and recitation of the Quran."

● The Messenger of Allah said: "It is probable that I be called soon and I will respond.

Then, I leave behind me among you two weighty (very worthy and important) things: The Book of Allah (i.e. the Qur'an), which is a stretched string from the heaven to the earth, and my progeny, my Ahlul-Bayt; for verily Allah, The Merciful, the Aware, informed me that never, never, will these two get separated from each other until they meet me at the Houd of Kauthar (the Pond of Abundance).

Therefore, be careful how you will treat those two in my absence."

And, in another tradition it is added: "Never, never, shall you get astray if you attach yourselves to these TWO." This tradition is narrated by more than twenty persons from the companions of the Prophet (saw).

● Jabir-ibn-'Abdillah': "I said to Prophet (saw): 'O Messenger of Allah we have known Allah and His Apostle; then who is 'Ulul-Amr', those that Allah has made their obedience the same as your obedience?' Then, the Prophet (saw) said: 'O' Jabir! They are, after me, my successors and the guides of Muslims; the first of them is Ali ibn Abi Talib; then (Imam) Hassan, and (Imam) Hussain; then Ali ibn Hussain; then Mohammad ibn Ali; known in the Turah as Baqir, whom you will see, O' Jabir! When you visit him, give my regards to him. After him, there is Sadiq, Ja'far ibn Muhammad; and after him Musa ibn Ja'far; then Ali ibn Musa; then Muhammad ibn Ali; then Ali ibn Muhammad, then Hassan ibn Ali; and after him (there comes) Al-Qaim, whose name and epithet is the same as mine. He is Allah's Authority on the Earth and His Remainder amongst His servants.

He is the son of (Imam) Hassan-ibn-Ali (al-'Askari). This is the very personality by whose hands Allah will open the Easts and Wests of the worlds and this is the very personality who will be absent from his followers and those who love him, in which his mastership cannot be proved by a statement of anyone except for the one whose heart Allah tests for Faith."

Jabir said: "I asked him: 'O' Messenger of Allah will his followers avail of him during his occultation?'

He answered: 'Yes. By the One Who appointed me to Prophethood, they will seek brightness from his light and will avail by devotion in his absence the same as the availing of people from the (glow of) sun when clouds cover it."

● Malik-ibn-Anas said about the virtue of Imam Sadiq (as): "No eye has ever seen, no ear has ever heard, and no heart (soul) has ever been striken that there can (contemporaneously) be anybody higher than (Imam) Ja'far Sadiq (as) from the point of virtue, knowledge, worship, and piety."

Jabir Ibn Abdullah Ansari said, "One day we were with Prophet (saw). He drew a line on a paper and said, this is the right path, the path of Allah (swt).

Then he drew two other lines at right and left of the first line and said, these two other lines are the path of Shaytan. He then put his hand on the middle line and said, this is the right path.

The path that Ali ibn Abi Talib (as) follows & guides people towards it and the other paths belongs to Shaytan."

said, "We, AhlulBayt (chosen descendants of the Holy Prophet), hold such central and balancing position in religion that those who are deficient in understanding and acting upon its principles, will have to come to us for reformation, and those who are overdoing it have got to learn moderation from us."

● "Anyone who loves us AhlulBayt must be ready to face a life of austerity."