Intro
In Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya vol. 4 (page 439), MGA seems to have agreed with the miracle of the people of the cave. It’s a Quranic story from Quran (18:9–26). This was via a revelation that MGA received. In this revelation, it seems that MGA’s god was telling him that the story of Ashab-e-Kahf was “one of the wonders (Ajooba or Ajaba) of Allah, MGA was also calling himself as the second coming of Ibrahim (as) (astagfarullah).
In 1905, MGA explains how it was hidden (Chuppa hua) that someone else would be the Messiah to arrive, just like the sleepers of the Ashab-e-Kahf (See English Malfuzat-7, pages 267-269, Al-Hakam, vol. 9, no. 28, p. 2, dated 10 August 1905).
In 1906, Via Chashma-e-Masihi (Fountain of Christianity), MGA writes something confusing (see page 29) about the People of the Cave.
“””And where is the harm if the story of Ashab-e-Kahf [the Companions of the Cave] is also found in the earlier books of Jews and Christians, even if we suppose that these accounts are fictitious? Remember, their religious and historical books, and even their revealed ones, are all cloaked in darkness……”””
Even after MGA died, in the BA5 it is written as a wonder/secret of Allah. Also, on page 473 and 544, MGA argued that the secret of the death of Eisa (as) in Kashmir as Yuz Asaf was revealed to MGA, and it is similar to the Ashab-e-Kahf (People of the Cave) and how they remained hidden.
In 1917, in Muhammad Ali’s famous commentary on the Quran, he claimed that this 300-year period wasn’t actually the amount of years that these “people of the save” slept, instead it was a metaphor which pointed towards the 300 years that Christians were persecuted before they became triumphant.
In the 1960’s, via Tafseer-e-Kabeer, the 2nd Qadiani-Ahmadi, Mirza Basheer ud Din Mahmud Ahmad allegedly considered it funny yet sad that Allahﷻ stated that the People of the Cave are not a wonder, they were rather a sign like any other sign of Allahﷻ, yet Muslims present them as one of the wonders.
In 1988, the Qadiani-Ahmadi’s totally copied Muhammad Ali‘s explanation from 1917. In Malik Ghulam Farid‘s famous 5-volume commentary of the Quran (See the 2018 edition online), he also asserts the “People of the Cave”, signified the 300 years that it took for Christianity to emerge as a global power, and not 7 people who slept for 300 years and woke up and lived their lives.

