Surah Yusuf, Ayah 81
Quran 12:81 · Joseph · Makki · Para 13 · Page 245
اِرْجِعُوْۤا اِلٰۤی اَبِیْكُمْ فَقُوْلُوْا یٰۤاَبَانَاۤ اِنَّ ابْنَكَ سَرَقَ ۚ وَمَا شَهِدْنَاۤ اِلَّا بِمَا عَلِمْنَا وَمَا كُنَّا لِلْغَیْبِ حٰفِظِیْنَ ۟
Transliteration
IrjiAAoo ila abeekum faqooloo yaabana inna ibnaka saraqa wama shahidnailla bima AAalimna wama kunnalilghaybi hafitheen
Saheeh International
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.
Al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir
The oldest brother told them to return to their father and tell him that his son had stolen, and the minister of Egypt had taken him as a slave as a punishment for his theft, and that they only related to him what they knew from seeing the bowl produced from his bag. They did not know that he stole things, and if they had known this they would not have made a promise to their father to return him.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (abridged)
Explains 12:80–12:82 together — read it on 12:80