In her account of the slander, the Prophet ﷺ said, "If you are innocent, Allah will clear you, and if you have fallen into a sin, then seek Allah's forgiveness and repent to Him."Aisha said, "By Allah, I can find no comparison for myself except the father of Yusuf, 'And they brought his shirt stained with false blood. He said, Rather, your souls have enticed you to something, so patience is most fitting. And Allah is the one whose help is sought against what you describe'" [Yusuf 12:18].Then Allah revealed, "Indeed, those who brought forth the slander are a group among you. Do not think it bad for you, rather it is good for you. Every one of them will bear what he has earned of the sin, and the one who took upon himself the greater share of it will have a great punishment" [Nur 24:11], the ten verses.
- في حديثها عن الإفك قال النبي ﷺ: إن كنت بريئة فسيبرئك الله وإن كنت ألممت بذنب فاستغفري الله وتوبي إليه قلت: إني والله لا أجد مثلا إلا أبا يوسف {وجاءو على قميصه بدم كذب قال بل سولت لكم أنفسكم أمرا فصبر جميل والله المستعان على ما تصفون} [يوسف: ١٨] وأنزل الله: {إن الذين جاءو بالإفك عصبة منكم لا تحسبوه شرا لكم بل هو خير لكم لكل أمري منهم ما أكتسب من الإثم والذي تولى كبره منهم له عذاب عظيم} [سورة النور: ١١] العشر الآيات.
Bukhari narrated it in the tafsir (4690) and Muslim in the Repentance (2770, 56), both from the hadith of Zuhri, who said, "I heard Urwa bin Zubayr, Saeed bin Musayab, Alqama bin Waqqas, and Ubaydullah bin Abdullah, regarding the hadith of Ayesha, wife of the Prophet ﷺ." The wording given is Bukhari's, while Muslim's wording is longer.Yaqub's male children numbered twelve men. In detail, they were as follows. From his wife Liya (Leah), Rubil (Reuben), Shamun (Simeon), Lawi (Levi), Yahuza (Judah), Aysakhar (Issachar), and Zabulun (Zebulun). From his wife Rahil (Rachel), Yusuf and Benyamin. From Rahil's maidservant, Dan and Naftali. From Liya's maidservant, Jad and Ashir.The People of the Book mention that when Yaqub died, the people of Egypt wept for him for seventy days. Yusuf ordered the physicians to embalm him with perfume, and he remained thus for forty days. Then Yusuf asked the permission of the king of Egypt to go out with his father in order to bury him among his own people, and the king granted him permission. The nobles and elders of Egypt went out with him, and when they reached Hebron, they buried him in the cave that Ibrahim, the friend of Allah, had bought from Ifron bin Sakhr the Hittite. They buried him there and held mourning for him for seven days, then returned to Egypt. This is how Ibn Jareer mentioned it in his history, and Ibn Kathir in Bidayah wa Nihayah (1, 504), and it is found in the Book of Genesis, chapter 49, verses 26 to 33.Yaqub's age on the day he entered Egypt was one hundred and thirty years, and he remained in the land of Egypt for seventeen years, so his age at his death was one hundred and forty-seven years.