Al Rakim

In Islamic tradition, Al Rakim was the dog that guarded the legendary Seven Sleepers and that stood by them all through their long sleep.[1][2] However, Al Rakim has alternately been identified as the name of the location of the cave of the Seven Sleepers, or the name of a "brass plate, or stone table" located at the cave, naming the sleepers.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Wood, James (1907). Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge.
  2. ↑ Brewer, E. Cobham (1894). Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
  3. ↑ Carlyon, Clement (1838). Scripture Notices and Proof. London: Whittaker and Co. p. 59.
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