وَلَبِثُوا۟ فِى كَهْفِهِمْ ثَلَٰثَ مِا۟ئَةٍۢ سِنِينَ وَٱزْدَادُوا۟ تِسْعًۭا
Wa labisoo fee kahfihim salaasa mi'atin sineena wazdaadoo tis'aa
And they remained in their cave for three hundred years and exceeded by nine.
Themes in this ayah
Explore in Habl →Scores run 0–100: how strongly this ayah speaks to a theme. 70+ is central, 50+ is clear, under 50 is weak.
5 other themes with weak connections
Labeled by AI and people · How this worksFollow this theme through Al-KahfFollow this theme
Lessons from past peoples
18:25Ayah 1110
29 ayahs in Al-Kahf are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
← Previous on Lessons from past peoples18:22They will say there were three, the fourth of them being their dog; and they will say there were five, the sixth of them being their dogNext on Lessons from past peoples →18:42And his fruits were encompassed [by ruin], so he began to turn his hands about [in dismay] over what he had spent on it,
Tafsir
Scholars largely agree on this ayah
And they tarried in the Cave three hundred read with tanwīn thalāthami’atin years sinīn is an explicative supplement to thalāthami’atin ‘three hundred’ these three hundred years in the case of the People of the Cave were solar years; but for the number of lunar ones the Arabs add nine years thereto and this is mentioned in His saying and add nine that is nine years; in other words three hundred solar years while three hundred and nine lunar ones.
Related Hadiths
Related Topics
Related Ayahs
Loading related ayahs…