al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4058

Translation

✧ When Ibrahim migrated to the land of Syria and they expelled him from it as a fugitive, he departed with Sarah. She said to him, "I have given myself to you," and Allah revealed to him that he should marry her. That was the first revelation He sent down to him, and Lut believed in him along with a group from his people. He said, "Indeed, I will emigrate to my Lord. Indeed, He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise." So they expelled him from the land of Babylon to the Holy Land until he reached Harran, and they expelled him from there until they pushed him to the Jordan, where there was a tyrant among the tyrants, until Allah crushed him. Then Ibrahim returned to Syria with Lut, and Allah made Lut a prophet and sent him to the Mu'tafikat as a messenger calling to Allah. They were five cities, the greatest of which was Sodum, then 'Amud, then Arum, then Sa'ur, then Sabur. The people of these cities numbered four million. Lut settled in Sodum and stayed among them for more than twenty years, commanding them and forbidding them, calling them to Allah and to His worship, and to abandon the abominations and filthy acts they were upon. Hospitality was made obligatory upon Lut as it was made obligatory upon Ibrahim and Isma'il. His people did not entertain any guest, and they approached the males of the worlds and disregarded women. So Allah reproached them for that through the tongue of their Prophet in the Qur'an, saying: {Do you approach males among the worlds and leave what your Lord has created for you as mates?} [Ash-Shu'ara 26:166]. Wahb said: 'Abdullah b. 'Abbas mentioned that what led them to approach men instead of women was that they had orchards and fruits inside their homes, and orchards and fruits outside along the roadside. A severe drought and famine struck them, so they said to one another, "If you prevent these exposed fruits from the wayfarers, you will have a livelihood from them." They said, "How can we prevent them?" Some of them turned to others and said, "Make it your custom regarding anyone you find in your lands as a stranger whom you do not know: rob him, have intercourse with him, and drag him along. For people will not set foot in your lands if you do that." Then Iblis came to them on those mountains in the form of a handsome boy, the sweetest boy people had ever seen, and marked him. They seized him, had intercourse with him, robbed him, and dragged him along. Then he left. So no person came to them except that they did that to him. That remained their custom until Allah sent Lut to them. Lut forbade them from that and warned them of the punishment, and he made excuses to them, saying, "O my people, indeed you commit an immorality that no one in the worlds has preceded you with." Then he mentioned the rest of the hadith from Ibn 'Abbas.

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