ٱرۡجِعُوٓاْ إِلَىٰٓ أَبِيكُمۡ فَقُولُواْ يَٰٓأَبَانَآ إِنَّ ٱبۡنَكَ سَرَقَ وَمَا شَهِدۡنَآ إِلَّا بِمَا عَلِمۡنَا وَمَا كُنَّا لِلۡغَيۡبِ حَٰفِظِينَ ٨١
Irjiʿū ilā abīkum faqūlū yāʾabānā innabnaka saraqa wa mā shahidnā illā bimā ʿalimnā wa mā kunnā lil-ghaybi ḥāfiẓīn.
Return to your father and say, 'O our father, indeed your son has stolen, and we did not testify except to what we knew. And we were not witnesses of the unseen.1
Translation: Sahih International
Footnotes (1)
- i.e., We could not have known when we gave you the oath that he would steal and be apprehended.