Al-Kahf Verse 25

They had remained in their cave for three hundred years, adding nine.[[ Three hundred years in the Gregorian calendar equal three hundred and nine years in the Islamic lunar calendar. ]]

They remained in their cave for three hundred years, plus nine.

And they tarried in the Cave three hundred years, and to that they added nine more.

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

And they tarried in their cave three hundred years and added nine.

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

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

(It is said) they stayed in the cave three hundred years and nine.

And they stayed in their Cave for three hundred years* and nine more*. (* 300 according to the Solar calendar and 309 according to the Lunar calendar.)

They remained in the Cave for three hundred years, and added nine more [to that number].

And they stayed in their Cave three hundred (solar) years, and added nine (for lunar years).

And they (- the early Christians) stayed in this Place of Refuge three hundred years and extended (their stay) another nine (years).

And they stayed/remained in their cave three hundred years and they were increased (by) nine (years).

And they stayed in their Cave for three hundred years * and nine more *. (* 300 according to the Solar calendar and 309 according to the Lunar calendar.)

Except (by adding) "If Allah please;" and remember your Lord when you have forgotten, and say, "It may be that my Lord will guide me to what is nearer than this to the right way."

And they stayed in their Cave three hundred (solar) years, and add nine (for lunar years).

Unless Allah please. And remember thy Lord when thou forgettest and say: Maybe my Lord will guide me to a nearer course to the right than this.

And they remained in their cave three hundred years and (some) add (another) nine.

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

They, in fact, stayed in the cave for three hundred plus nine further years.

And they stayed in the Cave three hundred years and to that they added nine more.

And they stayed in their cave three hundred years, adding nine.

[Some say], "They stayed in their cave three hundred years," and to that some have added another nine years.

And they stayed in their cave for three hundred years, adding nine.

And they tarried in the Cave three hundred (read [with tanwn] thalthami'atin) years (sinn is an explicative supplement to thalthami'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.

The Length of their Stay in the Cave

Allah says;

وَلَبِثُوا فِي كَهْفِهِمْ ثَلَثَ مِايَةٍ سِنِينَ وَازْدَادُوا تِسْعًا



And they stayed in their cave three hundred years, adding nine.

Here Allah tells His Messenger the length of time the people of the Cave spent in their cave, from the time when He caused them to sleep until the time when He resurrected them and caused the people of that era to find them. The length of time was three hundred plus nine years in lunar years, which is three hundred years in solar years. The difference between one hundred lunar years and one hundred solar years is three years, which is why after mentioning three hundred, Allah says, `adding nine.'

قُلِ اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا لَبِثُوا

لَهُ غَيْبُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالاَْرْضِ أَبْصِرْ بِهِ وَأَسْمِعْ مَا لَهُم مِّن دُونِهِ مِن وَلِيٍّ وَلَا يُشْرِكُ فِي حُكْمِهِ أَحَدًا