the exemplary character of Yusuf.
Yusuf was one of the sons of Ya'qub, peace be upon them both.
When he was very young, his brothers threw him into a well because they
were jealous of him, and they told their father that a wolf had eaten him.
Travellers in a caravan found him in the well and sold him at the palace
of a nobleman in Egypt. There, he was later slandered and sent to prison,
where he remained for years.
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