It is narrated from Sayyiduna Safinah (may Allah be pleased with him): I boarded a boat at sea and it broke apart. I climbed onto one of its planks, and it cast me into a thicket in which there was a lion. Nothing frightened me except that lion. I said: O Abu al-Harith, I am the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Thereupon it lowered its head and nudged my side with its shoulder. It kept walking with me and showing me the way until it set me on the road. When it had brought me to the road, it made a sound (a growl), and I thought that it was bidding me farewell. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.