"What should be the punishment," they were asked, "in case you are liars?"
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (they said) joseph's servant said: (and what shall be the penalty for it) what would be the penalty of the thief (if ye prove liars?)
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : they, the crier and his men, said, ‘so, what shall be his requital, that is, the thief’s, if you prove to have been liars?’, when you said, ‘we are certainly not thieves’, and [if] it is found among your belongings?
