Do you understand that the Companions of the Cave and of the Inscription were wonders among our signs? Behold, the youths entered the Cave and said, “Our Lord, bestow upon us your mercy and deal with us in the right way.” We drew a veil over their ears for a number of years in the Cave. Then we awakened them in order to test which of the two parties was best at calculating the number of years they had stayed in the Cave. We relate to you their story in truth… So they stayed in their Cave three hundred years, and some add nine more years to that.

難道你以為岩洞和碑文的主人是我的蹟象中的一件奇事嗎？當時，有幾個青年避居山洞中，他們說：「我們的主啊！求你把你那裡的恩惠賞賜我們，求你使我們的事業完全端正。」我就使他們在山洞裡幾年不能聽聞。後來我使他們甦醒，以便我知道兩派中的哪一派更能計算他們所停留的時間。我把他們的故事，誠實地告訴你，他們是幾個青年，他們信仰他們的主，而我給他們增加正道。…他們在山洞裡逗留了三百年，（按陰歷算）他們又加九年。（古蘭經18：9－13，25）

這書是翻譯自Dr. Abdullah Aziz的’The Amazing Teachings of Islam’s Prophet – Mohammed’s Believe It or Else!’。

1至5的內容取材自古蘭經。6至21的內容取材自布哈里聖訓實錄全集卷一至卷三（中文譯本由康有璽翻譯，經濟日報出版社出版）。22至35的內容取材自布哈里聖訓實錄全集卷四至卷九（英文譯本由美國南加州大學穆斯林協會翻譯，放在http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari）。