The Nāṣirī Generations 192.1.4

192.1.4

Like as in the case of Yusuf, they said, ‘Why, O father, dost thou not intrust Yusuf to us, seeing that we are true friends of his ? Send him along with us to-morrow into the pastures that he may divert himself, and we will be his protectors’;’ and, when they brought him where the herds of horses were, they sold him to certain merchants ; and some say that his uncle’s sons were among the party that sold him. The merchants brought him towards Bukhara, and sold him to one of the kinsmen of the Sadr-i-Jahan [the chief ecclesiastic] of Bukhara, and, for some time, in that family of eminence and sanctity, he remained. The most beneficent of that family used to nourish him in the hall of his kindness, like his own children in infancy.