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quran:18:25 –

And they remained in their cave for three hundred years and exceeded by nine.  

And they tarried in the Cave three hundred (read ˹with tanwīn˺ thalāthami’atin) years (sinīn is an explicative supplement to thalāthami’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.
القرآن:١٨:٢٥ –

وَلَبِثُوا فِي كَهْفِهِمْ ثَلَاثَ مِائَةٍ سِنِينَ وَازْدَادُوا تِسْعًا  

{ولبثوا في كهفهم ثلاث مائة} بالتنوين {سنين} عطف بيان لثلاثمائة وهذه السنون الثلاثمائة عند أهل الكهف شمسية وتزيد القمرية عليها عند العرب تسع سنين وقد ذكرت في قوله {وازدادوا تسعا} أي تسع سنين فالثلاثمائة الشمسية: ثلاثمائة وتسع قمرية.

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