How long did Yusuf remain in prison?

The questioner : But this is the question of the brother who asked me, glory to Allah the Great, he asked me how long Yusuf stayed in prison, and this is mentioned in the Qur'an?

The Shaykh : A few years. How many? Between three and nine, or up to ten.

The questioner : May Allah reward you. If someone were to object that Yusuf did not stay in prison for a few years, because the mention of the years here is after the man's release, but before the release the Qur'an did not address it. Before the second prisoner, the one in prison, was released, the Qur'an did not address it; it only mentioned it after the man's release, because it said, and it mentioned those who came after him. Yes, because the plot of Satan is read as "in his land for a few years," meaning after the man's release. As for before his release, the Qur'an did not address it.

The Shaykh : No, no, how? Do you know because if he had informed him immediately upon his release that he had stayed a few years, and the verse did not specify, it did not say after the man's release,