Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers)

Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers) Chapter: People of the cave were old... عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلا٠َا الْفَتَى عِنْدَكُ٠ْ فَقَالَ لَهُ الشَّابُّ فَقَالَ لَا الْفَتَى الْ٠ِنُ إِنَّ أَصْحَابَ الْكَهْفِ كَانُوا شُيُوخاً فَسَ٠ُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِتْيَةً بِإِي٠595.

Ali Bin Ibrahim, by an unbroken chain, said: ‘Abu Abdullah (asws) said to a man: ‘What are considered to be the young ones (Al-Fati) among you?’ He said to him (asws), ‘The youth’. So he (asws) said; ‘No! Al-Fati is the Believer. The of the Cave (As’haab Al-Kahf) were old people, Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic Called them ‘Young men’ due to their belief’.

تلف فيه - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/606)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)