In Islamic tradition, Al Raqēm was the dog that guarded the legendary Seven Sleepers and that stood by them all through their long sleep.[1][2] Other narrations identify that the dog was named Qitmēr.[3] However, Al Raqēm has alternately been identified as the name of the location of the cave of the Sleepers, or the name of a "brass plate, or stone table" located at the cave, naming the Companions of the Cave.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Wood, James (1907). Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge.
  2. ↑ Brewer, E. Cobham (1894). Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
  3. ↑ Qai'm, Mahdi Muntazir (2007). Jesus Through the Qur’an and Shi’ite Narrations (Bilingual ed.). Queens. New York: Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an. p. 39. ISBN 978-1879402140.
  4. ↑ Carlyon, Clement (1838). Scripture Notices and Proof. London: Whittaker and Co. p. 59.


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