Were the Brothers of Yūsuf Anbiyāʾ?

Some scholars tend to believe that the other eleven brothers were also anbiyāʾ. And they use as an evidence to support that the fact that Allah (swt) says: qūlū āmannā billāhi wa mā unzila ilaynā wa mā unzila ilā Ibrāhīma wa Ismāʿīla, wa Isḥāqa wa Yaʿqūba wa-l-asbāṭi wa mā ūtiya Mūsā wa ʿĪsā, wa mā ūtiya al-nabiyyūna min rabbihim, lā nufarriqu bayna aḥadin minhum wa naḥnu lahu muslimūn.

This ayah is saying that we believe in what has been revealed to — and it mentions the names of Ibrāhīm; and obviously revelation is given to the anbiyāʾ — Ibrāhīm, Ismāʿīl, Isḥāq, Yaʿqūb and al-Asbāṭ, and what was given to ʿĪsā and Mūsā. So they say that al-Asbāṭ was talking about the twelve sons of Yaʿqūb.

But the other scholars respond and say: no, al-Asbāṭ does not mean the twelve sons of Yaʿqūb; it means the twelve tribes. And Allah (swt) combined them all in the word asbāṭ, to include all of the prophets that came in the twelve tribes of Banū Isrāʾīl. Because we know that many, many prophets were sent to the children of Israel, and they were among the twelve tribes. Therefore al-Asbāṭ over here is not referring to the fathers of the tribes, but it's referring to all the tribes.

And Ibn Kathīr supports this opinion, because he says that the things that were done by the brothers of Yūsuf are not appropriate for the anbiyāʾ. So he says that they are not anbiyāʾ: only Yūsuf was a Nabī. And Yūsuf is the only one out of them who is specifically mentioned by name in the Qur'an as a Nabī of Allah (swt).