Eventually We saved (Lot) and his family, except his wife. We had decreed that she should be among those who would remain behind.1
Footnotes
[1]Qira’at: Hamza and Khalaf read it as: “He will bring them a great reward.”
[2]
That is, “The Prophet Lot (peace be upon him) had already been instructed not to take the woman along because she had to be destroyed along with her people.”