قَالُوا۟ سَنُرَٰوِدُ عَنْهُ أَبَاهُ وَإِنَّا لَفَٰعِلُونَ
Qaaloo sanuraawidu 'anhu abaahu wa innaa lafaa'iloon
They said, "We will attempt to dissuade his father from [keeping] him, and indeed, we will do [it]."
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Lessons from past peoples
12:61Ayah 1111
72 ayahs in Yusuf are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
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They said ‘We will try to tempt his father away from him that is we will try our hardest to seek him from him. That we will surely do’.
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"We were with Ibn Umar, and he said: 'The Messenger of Allah said: "Permit the women to go at night to the Masajid." His son said: 'By Allah! We would not permit them lest they become insidious from that.' So he (Abdullah) retorted: 'May Allah do and such with you.' I say: "The Messenger of Allah said," and you say: "We do not permit them?"
that his father said, "The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade the selling of gold for gold and silver for silver except if
they are equivalent in weight, and allowed us to sell gold for silver and vice versa as we wished."
The tradition mentioned above has also been narrated by Al Zuhri through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. This version adds “At that time he was hinting at disowning the child.”
"I was with Ibrahm An-Nakha'i and Ibrahim At-taimi, and I said: 'I wanted to combine Hajj and 'Umrah this year,' but Ibrahim said: 'If you father were alive, he would not do that.' And Ibrahim At-Taimi said, (narrating) from his father, that Abu Dharr said: 'Tamattu' was only for us". (Sahib)
That his father said, "While we were accompanying a funeral procession, Abu Huraira got hold of the
hand of Marwan and they sat down before the coffin was put down. Then Abu Sa`id came and took
hold of Marwan's hand and said, "Get up. By Allah, no doubt this (i.e. Abu Huraira) knows that the
Prophet forbade us to do that." Abu Huraira said, "He (Abu Sa`id) has spoken the truth."
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