Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs
Judah then said: (Return) O my brothers (unto your father and say: O our father! Lo! thy son hath stolen) the king's golden cup; it is also said that this means: your son was taken for stealing. (We testify only to that which we know) we saw the stolen cup found in his bag; (we are not guardians of the Unseen) he said: if we knew the unseen, we would not have taken him; it is also said that this means: we could not look after him at night.
Tafsir Ibn 'Abbas, trans. Mokrane Guezzou
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