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Ashabul Kahfi adalah kisah 7 pemuda yang tertidur lelap di dalam gua selama 309 tahun, Kisah ini terjadi sebelum zaman nabi Muhammad SAW.Para pemuda bersembunyi di dalam gua untuk melarikan diri dari kekejaman raja Dikyanus. Kisah ini bersumber dari Al Qur’an dalam Surah Al Kahfi..
In Christian and Muslim tradition, the Seven Sleepers (Arabic: اصحاب الکھف, translit. aṣḥāb al kahf, lit. ‘People of the Cave’) is the story of a group of youths who hid inside a cave outside the city of Ephesus around 250 to escape a religious persecution and emerge 300 years later.
The earliest version of this story comes from the Syrian bishop Jacob of Serugh (c. 450 – 521), which is itself derived from an earlier Greek source, now lost.[2] An outline of this tale appears in Gregory of Tours (538–594), and in Paul the Deacon’s (720–799) History of the Lombards.[3] The best-known Western version of the story appears in Jacobus da Varagine’s Golden Legend.
The Roman Martyrology mentions the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus under the date of 27 July (June according to Vatican II calendar).[4] The Byzantine calendar commemorates them with feasts on 4 August and 22 October. The ninth-century Irish calendar Félire Óengusso commemorates the Seven Sleepers on 7 August.[5]
The story appears in the Qur’an (Surah Al-Kahf 9–26) and thus is important to Islam. The Quranic story doesn’t state the exact number of sleepers, also gives the number of years that they slept as 300 solar years (equivalent to 309 lunar years). The Islamic version includes mention of a dog, al Rakim, who accompanied the youths into the cave and appears to keep watch. In Islam, these youths are referred to as the People of the Cave.