Tabari (1 passage)

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   The discourse on the explanation of the saying of Allah the Exalted: قَالَ هَلْ عَلِمْتُمْ مَا فَعَلْتُمْ بِيُوسُفَ وَأَخِيهِ إِذْ أَنْتُمْ جَاهِلُونَ (He said: Do you know what you did with Yūsuf and his brother, when you were ignorant?) (89)

   Abū Jaʿfar said: It is mentioned that Yūsuf — Allah's blessings be upon him — when his brothers said to him: يَا أَيُّهَا الْعَزِيزُ مَسَّنَا وَأَهْلَنَا الضُّرُّ وَجِئْنَا بِبِضَاعَةٍ مُزْجَاةٍ فَأَوْفِ لَنَا الْكَيْلَ وَتَصَدَّقْ عَلَيْنَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَجْزِي الْمُتَصَدِّقِينَ (O mighty one — adversity has touched us and our family, and we have come with meager merchandise; so give us full measure and be charitable to us; verily, Allah rewards the charitable) — compassion seized him, and he disclosed to them what he had kept hidden from them concerning his affair. As in:

   19789 - Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: Salama related to us, on the authority of Ibn Isḥāq, who said: It was related to me that when they spoke these words to him, his emotion overcame him, his tears flowed as he wept, and he disclosed to them what he had kept hidden from them. He said: (Do you know what you did with Yūsuf and his brother, when you were ignorant?) — and by mentioning his brother he did not mean what he himself had done toward him by holding him back, but he meant the separation they had brought about between him and his brother, when they did with Yūsuf what they had done.

   19790 - Ibn Wakīʿ related to us, saying: ʿAmr related to us, saying: Asbāṭ related to us, on the authority of al-Suddī: فَلَمَّا دَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ قَالُوا يَا أَيُّهَا الْعَزِيزُ مَسَّنَا وَأَهْلَنَا الضُّرُّ (And when they entered upon him, they said: O mighty one — adversity has touched us and our family) — the complete verse. He said: Compassion seized him on that occasion toward them, and he said to them: (Do you know what you did with Yūsuf and his brother, when you were ignorant?)

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   Abū Jaʿfar said: The explanation of the text is: Do you remember what you did with Yūsuf and his brother, when you separated them from one another and did what you did, when you were ignorant? — that is to say: in the state of your ignorance of the consequences of what you did with Yūsuf, and of what his affair and your affair would become.

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   القول في تأويل قوله تعالى : قَالَ هَلْ عَلِمْتُمْ مَا فَعَلْتُمْ بِيُوسُفَ وَأَخِيهِ إِذْ أَنْتُمْ جَاهِلُونَ (89) قال أبو جعفر: ذكر أن يوسف صلوات الله عليه لما قال له إخوته: يَا أَيُّهَا الْعَزِيزُ مَسَّنَا وَأَهْلَنَا الضُّرُّ وَجِئْنَا بِبِضَاعَةٍ مُزْجَاةٍ فَأَوْفِ لَنَا الْكَيْلَ وَتَصَدَّقْ عَلَيْنَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَجْزِي الْمُتَصَدِّقِينَ ، أدركته الرقّة وباح لهم بما كان يكتمهم من شأنه، كما:- 19789- حدثنا ابن حميد ، قال، حدثنا سلمة ، عن ابن إسحاق قال، ذكر لي أنهم لما كلموه بهذا الكلام غلبته نفسه ، فارفضَّ دمعه باكيًا ، ثم باح لهم بالذي يكتم منهم ، فقال: ( هل علمتم ما فعلتم بيوسف وأخيه إذ أنتم جاهلون ) ؟ ولم يعن بذكر أخيه ما صنعه هو فيه حين أخذه ، ولكن للتفريق بينه وبين أخيه ، إذ صنعوا بيوسف ما صنعوا. 19790- حدثنا ابن وكيع ، قال، حدثنا عمرو ، قال، حدثنا أسباط ، عن السدي: فَلَمَّا دَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ قَالُوا يَا أَيُّهَا الْعَزِيزُ مَسَّنَا وَأَهْلَنَا الضُّرُّ ، الآية ، قال:فرحمهم عند ذلك ، فقال لهم: ( هل علمتم ما فعلتم بيوسف وأخيه إذ أنتم جاهلون ) ؟ * * * قال أبو جعفر: فتأويل الكلام:هل تذكرون ما فعلتم بيوسف وأخيه ، إذ فرقتم بينهما وصنعتم ما صنعتم إذ أنتم جاهلون؟ يعني في حال جهلكم بعاقبة ما تفعلون بيوسف ، وما إليه صائر أمره وأمركم.