Sufyān’s criticism does not deny that Qurʾānic narratives can yield general lessons. It rejects treating an explicit account of Yūsuf’s brothers as a specific prediction of an otherwise unproven later event.
There is a difference between deriving a general lesson and claiming that a later event is the verse’s intended historical referent. The second requires independent, sound evidence.
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Narrator Criticism: Al-Mughīrah b. Saʿīd, Shaqīq and Jābir al-Juʿfī
Sufyān’s criticism does not deny that Qurʾānic narratives can yield general lessons. It rejects treating an explicit account of Yūsuf’s brothers as a specific prediction of an otherwise unproven later event.
There is a difference between deriving a general lesson and claiming that a later event is the verse’s intended historical referent. The second requires independent, sound evidence.