Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Yusuf, Ayah 42
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Tafsir
(And he said unto him of the twain who he knew would be released) from prison, i.e. the cupbearer: (Mention me in the presence of thy lord) your master the king; tell him that I have been wronged: my brothers sold me when I being a free man and I was put into prison while being innocent. (But Satan caused him to forget to mention it to his lord) Satan made him so preoccupied that he forgot to mention Joseph to his master, the king. It is also said that this means: Satan whispered to him: if you mention prison to the king, he will put you back in it. This is why he did not mention Joseph to the king; it is also said that the meaning of this is: Satan made Joseph forget the remembrance of his Lord and instead remembered a created being like him, (so he (Joseph) stayed in prison for some years) seven years, as a punishment for not mentioning Allah, when he had already spent five years in jail.
Related Hadiths
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.
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
Then he said to the one whom he deemed whom he was certain would be saved of the two — and this was the cup-bearer ‘Mention me to your lord’ your master and say to him ‘There is a young man in jail who has been wrongly imprisoned’. So he the cup-bearer departed but Satan caused him that is the cup-bearer to forget the mention of Joseph before his master so that he Joseph stayed he remained in prison for some years it is said that he remained for seven years or for twelve.