Yusuf asks the King's Distiller to mention Him to the King
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Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "If I stayed in prison as long as Joseph stayed and then the messenger came, I would respond to his call (to go out of the prison) ."
" And cause them a famine like that (which broke out at the time) of Joseph," but the subsequent portion was not mentioned.
And he forgot who had to forget that and. he did not make a mention of what follows after this.
That he was sold (as a slave) by one master to another for more than ten times (i.e between 13 and 19).
from his father, from his grandfather, that the Prophet (ﷺ) imprisoned a man for an accusation, then he let him go.
He said : Make it known for a year. He said this three times. He said: I do not know whether he said “for a year” or “for three years”.
Then al-Hasan forgot this tradition, and he used to say: A free man is not to be killed for a slave.
The slave who fled from his master, responsibility with regard to him was absolved.
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Yusuf asks the King's Distiller to mention Him to the King
Yusuf knew that the distiller would be saved. So discretely, so that the other man's suspicion that he would be crucified would not intensify, he said,
اذْكُرْنِى عِندَ رَبِّكَ
(Mention me to your King.) asking him to mention his story to the king. That man forgot Yusuf's request and did not mention his story to the king, a plot from the devil, so that Allah's Prophet would not leave the prison. This is the correct meaning of,
فَأَنْسَاهُ الشَّيْطَـنُ ذِكْرَ رَبِّهِ
(But Shaytan made him forget to mention it to his master.) that it refers to the man who was saved. As was said by Mujahid, Muhammad bin Ishaq and several others. As for, `a few years', or, Bida` in Arabic, it means between three and nine, according to Mujahid and Qatadah. Wahb bin Munabbih said, "Ayyub suffered from the illness for seven years, Yusuf remained in prison for seven years and Bukhtanassar (Nebuchadnezzar - Chaldean king of Babylon) was tormented for seven years."