ارْجِعُوا إِلَى أَبِيكُمْ فَقُولُوا يَاأَبَانَا إِنَّ ابْنَكَ سَرَقَ وَمَا شَهِدْنَا إِلَّا بِمَا عَلِمْنَا وَمَا كُنَّا لِلْغَيْبِ حَافِظِينَ
Go back to your father, and say, ‘‘Father! Your son has indeed committed theft, and we testified only to what we knew, and we could not have forestalled the unseen.
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 12:81
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 12:81] (see commentary for verse 3)