Al Rakim

In Islamic tradition, Al Raqēm was the dog that guarded the legendary Seven Sleepers and that stood by them all through their long sleep.[1][2] Other narrations identify that the dog was named Qitmēr.[3] However, Al Raqēm 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.[4]

References

Wood, James (1907). Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge.
Brewer, E. Cobham (1894). Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
Qai'm, Mahdi Muntazir (2007). Jesus Through the Qur’an and Shi’ite Narrations (Bilingual ed.). Queens. New York: Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an. p. 39. ISBN 978-1879402140.
Carlyon, Clement (1838). Scripture Notices and Proof. London: Whittaker and Co. p. 59.

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[1] Wood, James (1907). Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge.

[2] Brewer, E. Cobham (1894). Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.

[3] Qai'm, Mahdi Muntazir (2007). Jesus Through the Qur’an and Shi’ite Narrations (Bilingual ed.). Queens. New York: Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an. p. 39. ISBN 978-1879402140.

[4] Carlyon, Clement (1838). Scripture Notices and Proof. London: Whittaker and Co. p. 59.