Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs
(Or deemest thou) O Muhammad (that the People of the Cave and the Inscription) whereof the names of these youth and their story were inscribed; it is also said that the inscription refers to the valley where this cave was; and it is also said that it refers to a city (are a wonder among Our portents) such as the sun, the moon, the sky, the earth, the stars, the oceans and even that which is more wonderous than this?
Tafsir Ibn 'Abbas, trans. Mokrane Guezzou
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