Joseph
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[12:26]
[Joseph] exclaimed: "It was she who sought to make me yield myself unto her!"
Now one of those present, a member of her own household, suggested this: "If his tunic has been torn from the front, then she is telling the truth, and he is a liar;

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* v.26 : Lit., “a present one (shāhid) from her household testified” – i.e., suggested a test on these lines. Here, again, the Qur’anic narrative differs from the story as told in the Bible, since according to the latter (Genesis xxxix 19-20), the husband immediately believed the false accusation and cast Joseph into prison; the episodes related in verses 26-34 of this sūrah do not appear in the Biblical account.