Traditional date, disputed
Young Yusuf dreams that eleven stars, the sun and the moon bow to him. Yaqub tells him to keep it from his brothers.
[Of these stories mention] when Joseph said to his father, "O my father, indeed I have seen [in a dream] eleven stars and the sun and the moon; I saw them prostrating to me."
Quran 12:4
Source: Quran ·
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