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Or did you think, did you suppose, that the Companions of the Cave, the cavern in the mountain, and the Inscription, the tablet wherein their names and lineages had been inscribed - the Prophet "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" had been asked about their tale - were, with regard to their tale, a [unique] marvel from among, the entirety [of], Our signs? ('ajaban, 'a marvel' is the predicate of [the defective verb] kāna [sc. kānū], the preceding [min āyātinā, 'from among Our signs'] being a circumstantial qualifier). In other words, [did you suppose] that they were a marvel exclusively from among all [Our] other signs, or that they were the most marvellous among them? Not so.