Surah Al-Kahf — Verse 25

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وَلَبِثُوا۟ فِى كَهْفِهِمْ ثَلَـٰثَ مِا۟ئَةٍ سِنِينَ وَٱزْدَادُوا۟ تِسْعًا

Walabithoo fee kahfihim thalathami-atin sineena wazdadoo tisAAa

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 7

And they remained in their cave for three hundred years and exceeded by nine.

[Some say], ‘The sleepers stayed in their cave for three hundred years,’ some added nine more.

And (it is said) they tarried in their Cave three hundred years and add nine.

So they stayed in their Cave three hundred years, and (some) add nine (more)

They stayed in their Cave for three hundred years and added nine.

And they stayed in their Cave three hundred (solar) years, adding nine (for lunar years). (Tafsir Al-Qurtubi)

They remained in the Cave for three hundred years; and others added nine more years.