All 5 Istari were Maia. Gandalf was trapped on top of the Orthanc, how would he have taken his staff back? It is much more plausible that Saruman allowed him to keep the staff.
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Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days.
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