Yusuf's Fellow Prisoners, Two dreamers in prison
In the QuranTwo dreamers in prison
Yusuf's Fellow Prisonersصاحبا السجن
Traditional date, disputedEgypt
Two young men in prison with Yusuf whose dreams he interpreted, after first calling them to Allah.
One dreamed he was pressing wine, the other that birds were eating bread from his head. Before explaining, Yusuf told them about the One God: O my two companions of prison, are many lords better, or Allah, the One? One would serve wine to his master; the other would be crucified. The freed man forgot Yusuf for years, then remembered at the king's dream.
What does the Quran say?
O [my] two companions of prison, are separate lords better or Allah, the One, the Prevailing?
Quran 12:39
The lesson
Yusuf used every moment, even in prison, to speak about Allah.
Who else is linked?
Who lived at the same time?
Source: the Quran
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
People of the Quran
- Hawwa
- Habil
- Azar
- Sarah
- The Daughters of Lut
- The Wife of Ayyub
- The Brothers of Yusuf
- The Eldest Brother
- Binyamin
- The Aziz of Egypt
- The Wife of the Aziz
- The Witness from Her Family
- The Women of the City
- Yusuf's Fellow Prisoners
- The King of Egypt
- The Mother of Musa
- The Sister of Musa
- Asiya
- The Man of Musa's People
- The Man Who Warned Musa
- The Old Man of Madyan
- Safura
- The Sister of Safura
- The Believer of Firaun's Family
- The Magicians of Firaun
- Yusha ibn Nun
- Kalib ibn Yufanna
- Al-Khidr
- Talut
- Luqman
- The Son of Luqman
- Bilqis
- Asif ibn Barkhiya
- Uzayr
- Dhul-Qarnayn
- Imran
- Hannah
- The Wife of Zakariya
- The Disciples of Isa
- The Messengers of the Town
- Habib al-Najjar
- The People of the Cave
- The Owner of the Two Gardens
- The Companions of the Garden
- Tubba
- The Woman Who Undid Her Yarn
- Zayd ibn Haritha
- Abdullah ibn Umm Maktum
- Khawlah bint Tha'labah
- The Three Who Stayed Behind