Transliteration:( Qaala hiya raawadatnee 'an nafsee wa shahida shaahidum min ahlihaa in kaana qameesuhoo qudda min qubulin fasadaqat wa huwa minal kaazibeen )
56. From this two issues emerge:
1. The intention of adultery was of Zuleikha alone as is understood from "She seduced me". Hazrat Yusuf (on whom be peace) expressed no such intention, otherwise this account would have been false and what he said would have been a lie.
2. To lay a complaint to the judge against a criminal and to absolve oneself from the accusation is the practise of the Prophets. It is stated in a Hadith stay away from places where you could be accused
57. From this we learn that under certain conditions the testimony of one is given full credence because the Holy QUR'AAN described this incident without any refutation, Even today single information in matters of integrity is accepted.
The same ruling is with those Ahadith transmitted by only one narrator. From this the great status of Hazrat Ayesha Siddiqa (May Allah be pleased with her) is revealed that when Hazrat Yusuf (on whom be peace) was accursed his innocence was testified by a child, but when the beloved wife of the Beloved of Allah was accused Allah Almighty Himself testified about her innocence.
58. The full incident was as follows. When the Aziz of Egypt asked Hazrat Yusuf (on whom be peace) to prove his innocence he pointed to Zuleikha's uncle's baby to ask him to testify.
This baby was only four months old and was swinging in a cradle. This baby at once began to speak what the Holy QUR AAN has narrated here. It should be remembered that few such infants have spoken this witness of Hazrat Yusuf (on whom be peace); the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلمwho recited the praises of Allah Almighty at birth. Hazrat Isa on whom be peace) Bibi Mariam. Hazrat Yahya (on whom be peace), Hazrat Ebrahim (on whom be peace), the baby of that woman who was accused of adultery when she was
The tafsir of Surah Yusuf verse 26 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Yusuf ayat 25 which provides the complete commentary from verse 25 through 29.
24. It appears that when the master of the house came on the scene, he was accompanied by a person of his wife’s household. When he heard the story of the incident, he made this proposal: As each of them accuses the other and there is no eye witness of what happened between the two, the matter should be decided by the help of the circumstantial evidence, by examining the condition of Joseph’s shirt. Obviously this was a very reasonable way of deciding the matter, and there was, therefore, no need to resort to a miracle. According to some traditions this witness was an infant, lying in the cradle, whom Allah had given the power of speech for giving this evidence. As this story is not supported by any authority, there is no reason why the obvious, plain and reasonable thing should not be accepted that the witness was a wise and experienced member of the family of the wife, instead of having resort to a miracle based on an unauthentic tradition.
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