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The Cave of Ashāb al-Kahf: Where and When?

By Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani Edited by Faraz Abdul Moid The location of the cave of the Ashab al-Kahf has been an issue of much conflict amongst the Ulama and researchers. Where is the cave situated in which Ashab al-Kahf slept for over 300 years? Some researchers have reported it to be in the city Ephesus, Turkey. Some have named a cave in Spain to be the cave of Ashab al-Kahf, and others have claimed it to be in Jordan, Syria, or Yemen. But a Jordanian researcher, Muhammad Taysir Zibyan, who was the editor of the magazine Al-Shari`ah, arrived in Pakistan…