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Did the spider web and the doves' nest exist outside the Cave of Thawr when the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) was in it?

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Shaykh al-Albani deemed weak the hadith about the spider weaving a web over the mouth of the Cave of Thawr during the Hijra, a hadith narrated by Imam Ahmad and al-Tabarani in al-Kabeer from Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them both.

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