And the group departed with the friends and they went...

And the group departed with the friends and they went, and the servants of Yusuf -as caught up with them and called out, ‘O caravan! You are stealing!’ [12:70] . The said, ‘What is that which you are missing?’ [12:71] . They said, ‘We miss the king’s drinking cup, and the one who comes with it would be given a camel-load, as I am responsible for it’ [12:72] They said, ‘By Allah! You have known that we did not come for corruption in the land, and we are not thieves’ [12:73] .

They said, ‘So what would be its recompense if you were liars?’ [12:74] They said, ‘Its recompense is, the one in whose bag it is found to be, then he would be its recompense [12:75] . He -asws said: So it (the search) was begun with their bags before the bag of his brother (Benyamin), then it was extracted from the bag of his brother. [12:76] They (brothers) said, ‘If he has stolen, then a brother of his did indeed steal from before’. [12:77] .

Yusuf -as said to them: ‘Depart from our city!’ They said, ‘O chief! There is a father of his, old-aged, so take one of us in his place. Surely we see you as being from the good doers’ [12:78] , if you were to do so. He said: ‘Allah Forbid that we should take except for the one in whose possession we found our belongings [12:79] . Their eldest one said, I will never depart (from this) land until my father permits for me or Allah Decides for me, and He is the best of the deciders [12:80] .

And the brothers of Yusuf -as went until they entered to see Yaqoub -as , and he -as said to them: ‘Where is Benyamin -as ?’ They said, ‘Benyamin -as stole the measuring cup of the king, so the king seized its thief and withheld him -as with him. Ask the people of the town and the caravan until they inform you -as of that’. He -as recalled (said: ‘ Inna Lillah Wan Inna Ilayhi Rajioun ’) and shed tears and his -as grief intensified to the extent that his -as back became arched’’.

[14] ‘From Abu Ja’far -asws , he (the narrator) said and I was in his -asws presence, ‘Salim Bin Abu Hafs is reported from you -asws that you -asws tend to speak upon seventy perspectives, for you -asws there being a way out from these’. He -asws said: ‘What does Salim want from me -asws ? Does he want that I -asws come with the Angels!? By Allah -azwj ! The Prophets -as did not come with them, and Ibrahim -as had said: ‘ ‘I feel sick’ [37:89] , and he -as was not sick but he -as did not lie.