Some of them said: "Layered" in the sky, meaning: prepared for that.

: 11109. This: 2: Tafsir Ibn Kathir: (2/455).

: 11111. Strata: 3: Mujahid said: Gabriel took the people of Lot from their pastures and houses, carrying them along with their livestock and possessions. He lifted them until the inhabitants of the sky heard the barking of their dogs, then he overturned them. They were carried on the edges of his right wing. He said: When he overturned them, the first thing to fall from them were their parapets.

2070: 11115. After them: 1: It is reported in the hadith narrated in the Sunan from Ibn Abbas as a marfu' narration: "Whoever you find doing the deed of the people of Lot, kill the one who does it and the one to whom it is done."

Sahih. Narrated by Abu Dawud (H/4462), al-Tirmidhi (H/1456), Ibn Majah (H/2561), Ahmad (1/300), al-Bayhaqi (8/232), al-Hakim (4/355), al-Daraqutni (3/122), Nasb al-Rayah (3/339, 343), Ibn 'Adi in "al-Kamil" (5/1768), Talkhis (4/504), al-Manthur (3/101), Sharh al-Sunnah (10/308), al-Mishkat (3575), al-Hawi (2/204), al-Qurtubi (7/133, 244), Ibn Kathir (3/442, 4/272), and al-Irwa' (8/16). Graded sahih by Sheikh al-Albani.

: 11121. The punishment: 2: See Tafsir al-Qurtubi: (5/3313).

2071: 11122. Upon you: 1: Al-Qurtubi said in the interpretation of this verse: He described the day as being encompassing, and he intended to describe that day as encompassing them, for if the day of punishment encompasses them, then the punishment has encompassed them. It is like your saying: A severe day, meaning: severe in its heat. There is disagreement regarding that punishment: it is said: It is the punishment of the Fire in the Hereafter. It is also said: It is the punishment of total annihilation in this world.

It is also said: High prices; the meaning of this is narrated from Ibn Abbas.

In the hadith from the Prophet (peace be upon him): "Never do a people show deficiency in weights and measures except that Allah afflicts them with drought and high prices." Al-Qurtubi in his "Tafsir": (9/86).