Surat Al Kahf (9-10)

{أَمْ حَسِبْتَ أَنَّ أَصْحَابَ الْكَهْفِ وَالرَّقِيمِ كَانُوا مِنْ آيَاتِنَا عَجَباً} (الكهف: 9)

9- O Prophet, have you thought that the people of the cave and the book (a post on which the news of the people of the cave were written) were the most wonderful of our signs and miracles? Nay, there is something more wonderful.

There were more than thirty sites for the people of the cave were mentioned, and the cave, which was discovered in Jordan in 1389 AH, was the nearest cave matching the descriptions mentioned in the Qur'an.

{إِذْ أَوَى الْفِتْيَةُ إِلَى الْكَهْفِ فَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا آتِنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ رَحْمَةً وَهَيِّئْ لَنَا مِنْ أَمْرِنَا رَشَداً} (الكهف: 10)

10- The boys resorted to the cave to hide therein after they had fled their people for fear they may try them in their religion and force them to adopt disbelief. So, they resorted to the cave and supplicated Allah saying: O Allah, grant us guidance and favors to protect and preserve us from disbelievers, and facilitate a way of goodness to You to reform our matters.