32-6 Al-Mudhaffar ibn Ja’far ibn Mudhaffar al-Alawi narrated that Ja’far ibn Muhammad ibn Mas’ood quoted on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ubaydillah ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid, on the authority of Al-Hassan ibn Ali al-Washsha’, “I heard Ali ibn Musa Ar-Ridha’ عليه السلام say, ‘During the rule of the Children of Israel, if someone stole something, he would become the slave of the owner of that stolen property. Joseph عليه السلام was with his aunt when he was small. She really liked him. The Prophet Isaac عليه السلام had a belt which he عليه السلام had put on Jacob عليه السلام. That belt was with Isaac’s daughter (Joseph’s aunt). Jacob عليه السلام asked her to return Joseph عليه السلام. She got sad about this and sent him a message that she would return thechild later. When she wanted to send him back, she undressed him, put the belt on him and then put his shirt on him and sent him to his father. When Joseph عليه السلام reached Jacob, she arrived there also claiming that the belt had been lost. They searched Joseph’s body and found the belt on him. That was why when Joseph عليه السلام found the drinking cup in his brother’s saddle-bag which he himself had hidden there, his brothers said, ‘…If he steals, there was a brother of his who did steal before (him).’ Then Joseph عليه السلام asked them, ‘What is the punishment of the one in whose saddle-bag the drinking cup is found?’ They said, ‘The penalty should be that he in whose saddle-bag it is found, should be held (as bondman) to atone for the (crime)…’ as it is our tradition. Then ‘So he began (the search) with their baggage, before (he came to) the baggage of his brother: at length he brought it out of his brother’s baggage…’ That is why Joseph’s brothers said, ‘If he steals, there was a brother of his who did steal before (him).’ They were referring to that belt. ‘…But these things did Joseph keep locked in his heart, revealing not the secrets to them.’”