قَالُوا۟ يَٰٓأَبَانَا مَا لَكَ لَا تَأْمَ۫نَّا عَلَىٰ يُوسُفَ وَإِنَّا لَهُۥ لَنَٰصِحُونَ
Qaaloo yaaa abaanaa maa laka laa taamannaa 'alaa Yoosufa wa innaa lahoo lanaa sihoon
They said, "O our father, why do you not entrust us with Joseph while indeed, we are to him sincere counselors?
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12:11Ayah 1111
72 ayahs in Yusuf are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
← Previous on Lessons from past peoples12:10Said a speaker among them, "Do not kill Joseph but throw him into the bottom of the well; some travelers will pick him up - if you would do [something]."Next on Lessons from past peoples →12:13[Jacob] said, "Indeed, it saddens me that you should take him, and I fear that a wolf would eat him while you are of him unaware."
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They said ‘O father what is wrong with you that you do not trust us with Joseph? We are indeed his well-wishers we are indeed only looking out for his best interests.
Related Hadiths
My father said, "When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) became seriously ill, he was told about the prayer. He said,
'Tell Abu Bakr to lead the people in the prayer.' `Aisha said, 'Abu Bakr is a softhearted man and he
would be overpowered by his weeping if he recited the Qur'an.' He said to them, 'Tell him (Abu Bakr)
to lead the prayer. The same reply was given to him. He said again, 'Tell him to lead the prayer. You
(women) are the companions of Joseph."
"We used to call Ja'far bin Abi Talib the Father of the Poor, so when we used to come to him, he would draw us close to him as long as he was present. One day we came to him, and he did not find anything with him, so he brought a jar of honey and broke it, so we began to lick out of it."
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