{
 "id": "concept/dog-of-the-cave",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "dog-of-the-cave",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كلب أهل الكهف",
  "en": "The dog of the cave",
  "ur": "اہلِ کہف کا کتا"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "كلب رافق فتية الكهف فذُكر في القرآن معهم باسط ذراعيه بالوصيد على باب الكهف حارساً، وناموا ثلاثمئة سنين وازدادوا تسعاً ثم بعثهم الله ليسأل بعضهم بعضاً.",
  "en": "The dog that accompanied the youths of the cave and is named with them in the Quran: forelegs stretched at the threshold, a guard. They slept three hundred years and nine, then God raised them to question one another.",
  "ur": "وہ کتا جو کہف کے جوانوں کے ساتھ تھا اور قرآن میں ان کے ساتھ ذکر ہوا: ڈہلیز پر اگلے پاؤں پھیلائے پہرے دار۔ وہ تین سو برس اور نو سوئے پھر اللہ نے انہیں اٹھایا کہ باہم پوچھیں۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "living"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [
  "nature-browser",
  "nature-land"
 ],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "animals-and-mercy"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "natural",
  "sources": [
   "source/tanzil-quran"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Nature Explorer seed record (docs/plan/34-nature-browser.md); worded from the cited Qur'an ayahs and hadith collections",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "run": "nature-browser-1"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-18-18",
   "type": "mentioned_in",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/tanzil-quran"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-18-22",
   "type": "mentioned_in",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/tanzil-quran"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "concept/ababil-birds",
  "concept/anam",
  "concept/ant",
  "concept/apes",
  "concept/awqas",
  "concept/bat",
  "concept/bear",
  "concept/bee"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}