11098 - Abu Sa'id al-Ashajj told us, Ishaq ibn Mansur told us, from al-Hakam ibn 'Abd al-Malik, from Qatadah, he said: The village of Lot, where Gabriel lifted it, had four hundred thousand [inhabitants], and the inhabitants of the heaven could hear the barking of the dogs and the sounds of the roosters, then he overturned it, making its lowest part its highest.

11099 - My father told us, Hisham ibn Khalid told us, Shu'ayb ibn Ishaq told us, Ibn Abi 'Arubah told us, from Qatadah, regarding His saying: "So when Our command came, We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest." It was mentioned to us that it was a third of the villages, containing in it as many as Allah willed of great numbers. It was mentioned to us that it contained four million [people], and it was Sadum, a village between Medina and the Levant.

His saying, the Exalted: "And rained upon it."

11100 - My father told us, al-Husayn ibn 'Umar ibn Shaqiq al-Jarmi told us, Ja'far ibn Sulayman told us, from Abu 'Imran al-Jawni, from 'Abd Allah ibn Rabah, from Ka'b: "And rained upon it stones of layered baked clay [sijjil]." He said: It was upon the people in their assemblies, those calling to them, and their travelers, so not one of them escaped.

His saying, the Exalted: "Of sijjil [layered baked clay]."

[The first interpretation]

11101 - Abu Sa'id al-Ashajj told us, Hafs al-Mukattib told us, from Idris, from 'Atiyyah, from 'Ikrimah, from Ibn 'Abbas, regarding: "stones of sijjil," he said: Hard and solid.

11102 - Hajjaj ibn Hamzah told us, Shababah told us, Warqa' told us, from Ibn Abi Najih, from Mujahid, regarding His saying: "And rained upon it stones of sijjil," he said: In Persian, it is composed of "stone" [sanj] and "clay" [gil]. It has been narrated from Sa'id ibn Jubayr, al-Suddi, and Matar al-Warraq similarly.

11103 - Abu Zur'ah told us, Sahl ibn 'Uthman told us, Yahya ibn Abi Za'idah told us, from Isra'il, from 'Ata' ibn al-Sa'ib, from 'Ikrimah, regarding His saying: "stones of sijjil," he said: It has a name in Nabataean and a name in Persian.

The second interpretation:

11104 - Abu Zur'ah told us, Minjab ibn al-Harith told us, Bishr ibn 'Umarah told us, from Abu Rawq, from al-Dahhak, from Ibn 'Abbas, regarding His saying: "stones of sijjil," he says: From clay. It was narrated from 'Ikrimah and Ibn Sabit similarly.