they reached Egypt, Yusuf spoke to the King, and he [Yusuf] and the King went out to receive them. When he met them, he said: 'Enter Egypt, if Allah wills, in security.' ... Then, when they entered upon Yusuf, he took his parents and his brothers to himself, and they were his father and his maternal aunt.

11987 - ‘Ali ibn al-Husayn narrated to us, Abu al-Jamahir narrated to us, Sa‘id ibn Bashir narrated to us, from Qatada, regarding His saying: 'He took his parents to himself,' he said: His father and his mother, he embraced them and said: 'Enter Egypt, if Allah wills, in security.'

11988 - Muhammad ibn al-‘Abbas narrated to us, ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Salama narrated to us, Salama ibn al-Fadl narrated to us, Abu Ja‘far informed us, from al-Rabi‘ ibn Anas, who said: Ya‘qub went out to Yusuf in Egypt with seventy-two of his children and grandchildren. They went out from it with Musa, and they were six hundred thousand.

His saying, the Almighty: 'And he said, Enter Egypt, if Allah wills, in security.'

11989 - ‘Isam ibn Rawwad narrated to us, Adam narrated to us, Abu Ja‘far narrated to us, from al-Rabi‘, from Abu al-‘Aliya, who said: He means by it, the Egypt of Pharaoh.

11990 - ‘Abd Allah ibn Sulayman narrated to us, al-Husayn narrated to us, ‘Amir narrated to us, from Asbat, from al-Suddi, who said: He and the King went out to receive them, and when he met them, he said: 'Enter Egypt, if Allah wills, in security.'

His saying, the Almighty: 'And he raised his parents to the throne.'

My father narrated to us, ‘Ali ibn Salih ibn Wasim al-Jawsaqi narrated to us, Ibrahim ibn Khalid al-San‘ani narrated to us, ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman—meaning Ibn Mahzab—narrated to me that he heard Wahb saying regarding His saying: 'And he raised his parents to the throne,' he said: His father and his maternal aunt, for the mother of Yusuf had passed away during the childbirth of his brother Binyamin.

11991 - ‘Abd Allah narrated to us, al-Husayn narrated to us, ‘Amir narrated to us, from Asbat, from al-Suddi, regarding his parents: his father and his maternal aunt; he raised them both upon the throne.

11992 - Abu Zur‘ah narrated to us, Minjab narrated to us, Bishr ibn ‘Umarah informed us, from Abu Rawq, from al-Dahhak, from Ibn ‘Abbas, regarding His saying: 'And he raised his parents to the throne,' he said: The throne is the couch. And in another place: The throne was only called a throne because of its elevation.

11993 - Abu Sa‘id al-Ashajj narrated to us, Ibn Fudayl narrated to us, from ‘Ata’ ibn al-Sa’ib, from