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Then he said to the one whom he deemed, [whom] he was certain, would be saved of the two - and this was the cup-bearer: 'Mention me to your Rabb', your Mālik , and say to him, 'There is a young man in jail who has been wrongly imprisoned'. So he [the cup-bearer] departed, but Satan caused him, that is, the cup-bearer, to forget the mention of Joseph, before his Mālik , so that he, Joseph, stayed, he remained, in prison for some years: it is said [that he remained] for seven years, or for twelve.