Prophet Yusuf Part 1: Thrown in the Well by His Own Brothers

A boy at the bottom of a well, and no one knows where he is. This is the story of Prophet Yusuf. His brothers put him there. His father was told he was dead. And then Allah inspired him: "You will surely inform them of this affair of theirs while they do not perceive who you are." (Surah Yusuf 12:15) In Part 1 of the story of Prophet Yusuf, we go through Surah Yusuf 12:3-22: the dream of eleven stars, the sun and the moon, Ya'qub's warning and promise, why the brothers hated Yusuf, the plot, the well, the false blood on the shirt, the caravan, and the boy sold for a few dirhams. We keep the Qur'an, authentic hadith, tafsir and the Bible separate and label each one, and we cover what the Qur'an leaves unsaid, such as where the well was, how old Yusuf was, and who spoke in verse 10. The Qur'an says "shirt", not a coat of many colours. This is the Islamic perspective on Prophet Yusuf (Joseph), told as a documentary from the Qur'an and classical sources. Prophets series playlist:    • Prophets Series   Previous episode: Prophet Lut CHAPTERS 00:00 The boy at the bottom of the well 00:51 The best of stories 01:09 Yusuf, Ya'qub, Ishaq and Ibrahim 01:55 How we tell these stories 02:20 The dream of eleven stars 03:42 Ya'qub believes his son 04:18 What the dream means 04:44 Why the brothers hated Yusuf 05:34 Plan now, repent later 06:00 Who spoke? Reuben, Judah or Simeon 06:33 Were the brothers prophets? 07:10 Getting Yusuf out of the house 08:28 The sentence that breaks off 09:02 Where was the well? 10:04 The brothers return with the shirt 11:05 Sabrun jameel, beautiful patience 12:26 The caravan and the bucket 13:02 Who sold him, and for how much? 14:44 The man from Egypt 15:22 Allah is predominant over His affair 15:56 The door that closes SOURCES Qur'an, Surah Yusuf 12:3-22, 12:100 Sahih al-Bukhari 3390 (the noble son of the noble), and the hadith on good dreams (Abu Qatadah) Tafsir Ibn Kathir Genesis 37 (for comparison) Allah knows best. If we got something wrong, tell us in the comments. #ProphetYusuf #StoriesOfTheProphets #SurahYusuf Yūsuf (AS) Part 1 — The Boy in the Well — credits IMAGES Paintings: the production's own image pool. Photos (free licences, used with credit; Wikimedia Commons): A well at Tel Dothan, known locally as “Joseph’s Well” — שועל — CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... The Cave of the Patriarchs (Cave of Machpela), Hebron — Yair Aronshtam from Israel — CC BY-SA 2.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... The Pyramids of Giza with camels — Ludovic Delot — CC BY 4.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... The River Nile at sunset, Luxor — Vyacheslav Argenberg — CC BY 4.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... “Last time” frames: from this channel's own film, Lūṭ (AS): One House in a Whole City. 3D Elevation: Terrain Tiles (Mapzen / AWS Open Data), from SRTM and GMTED2010 (NASA / USGS, public domain). Satellite imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016) — CC BY 4.0 — https://s2maps.eu The 3D well, the dream sky and the 3D city are illustrations built in code (three.js); they are not reconstructions of real places. The Qur'an does not name the place of the well. MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS Original score (cello, piano and drums) and all sound effects were composed and synthesized in code for this video. No samples, loops or existing melodies are used. SOURCES SHOWN ON SCREEN Qur'an (Surah Yūsuf): 12:3, 12:4, 12:5, 12:6, 12:7, 12:8, 12:9, 12:10, 12:11, 12:12, 12:13, 12:14, 12:15, 12:16, 12:17, 12:18, 12:19, 12:20, 12:21, 12:22, 12:23, 12:100. Verse numbers are shown with every quote; the English is the meaning (Sahih International), not word for word. Hadith: Sahih al-Bukhari 3390 (Ibn ‘Umar: “The noble, son of the noble, son of the noble, son of the noble: Yūsuf, son of Ya‘qūb, son of Isḥāq, son of Ibrāhīm.”) and Sahih al-Bukhari 3292 (Abū Qatādah: “A good dream is from Allah.”). Both graded sahih. Tafsir: Ibn Kathīr; reports from Ibn ‘Abbās and Ibn Mas‘ūd (as named in the narration). The Bible: Genesis 37:2 (seventeen), 37:3 (the coat), 37:5–10 (the dream and the rebuke), 37:17 (Dothan), 37:21–22 (Reuben), 37:26–27 (Judah), 37:28 (twenty pieces of silver, the Ishmaelites), 37:33 (“an evil beast”), 37:36 (Potiphar). FONTS Montserrat and Amiri — SIL Open Font License.