Ḥikāyat aṣḥāb al-kahf. حكاية اصحاب الكهف

Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department, Lewis O 170. 1600. Unbound copy of the story of the People of the Cave, known in other traditions as the Seven Sleepers. The text begins with Qāla Ibn ʻAbbās, and is a retelling and explanation of the tale as it appears in the Qurʼān in sūrah 18 at the end. The final leaf is smaller paper (155 x 130 (140 x 110) mm); the recto of that leaf and the previous half page is an addition in a different hand with the verso of the final leaf written in Persian. OPenn: go to OPenn