وَلَمَّا فَصَلَتِ ٱلْعِيرُ قَالَ أَبُوهُمْ إِنِّى لَأَجِدُ رِيحَ يُوسُفَ ۖ لَوْلَآ أَن تُفَنِّدُونِ
Wa lammaa fasalatil 'eeru qaala aboohum innee la ajidu reeha Yoosufa law laaa an tufannidoon
And when the caravan departed [from Egypt], their father said, "Indeed, I find the smell of Joseph [and would say that he was alive] if you did not think me weakened in mind."
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Lessons from past peoples
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And as the caravan set forth leaving behind the palm fields of Egypt their father said to those of his sons and their children present ‘Truly I sense the scent of Joseph — which the east wind had brought to him with God’s permission across a distance of three or eight or more days’ journey; if only you did not think me doting’ if only you did not regard me as foolish you would believe me.
Related Hadiths
My father said to me: My son, if you had seen us while we were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and the rain had fallen on us, you would have thought that our smell was the smell of the sheep.
“O my
son, if
only you could have seen us when we were with the Messenger of
Allah
(ﷺ), when rain fell on us; you would have thought that we
smelled
like sheep.”
My father said, "(Before Islam) I was looking for my camel .." The same narration is told by a
different sub-narrator. Jubair bin Mut`im said, "My camel was lost and I went out in search of it on the
day of `Arafat, and I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) standing in `Arafat. I said to myself: By Allah he is from the
Hums (literally: strictly religious, Quraish were called so, as they used to say, 'We are the people of
Allah we shall not go out of the sanctuary). What has brought him here?"
“It is as if I can see the traces
of
perfume in the parting (of hair) of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
after three days, and he was a Muhrim.”
His father said: "I saw the Prophet, Abu Bakr, and Umar walking in front of the funeral."
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