Tafseer of Joseph · Yusuf · 12:71
They said while approaching them, "What is it you are missing?"
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The explanation of the words of Allah the Exalted: قَالُوا وَأَقْبَلُوا عَلَيْهِمْ مَاذَا تَفْقِدُونَ (71)
Abū Jaʿfar said: Allah the Exalted says: The sons of Yaʿqūb said, when it was called out to them أَيَّتُهَا الْعِيرُ إِنَّكُمْ لَسَارِقُونَ , and they turned toward the herald and those with him and said to them: مَاذَا تَفْقِدُونَ — what is it that you are missing?