Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Kahf, Ayah 25
وَلَبِثُوا۟ فِى كَهْفِهِمْ ثَلَٰثَ مِا۟ئَةٍۢ سِنِينَ وَٱزْدَادُوا۟ تِسْعًۭا
And they remained in their cave for three hundred years and exceeded by nine.
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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
Sunan Abu Dawud#4288Sahih in chain
The other narrators mentioned "nine years" from Hisham except Mu'adh.
Narrated by The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Qatadah through a different chain of narrators. This version has "nine years".
Abu Dawud said:
Sahih Muslim#2410Sahih
Tho month is thus and thus, and thus, i. e. ten, ten and nine.
Narrated by Muhammad b. Sa'd reported on the authority of his father (Sa'd b. Abi Waqqas (Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had said:
Sahih Muslim#3730Sahih
Hakim b. Hizam was born inside the Ka'ba and lived for one hundred and twenty years.
Narrated by A hadith like this has been transmitted on the authority of Hakim b. Hizam (Imam Muslim) said:
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And (it is said) they tarried in their Cave three hundred years and add nine) before Allah made them wake up.