The Throne-Bearers

The Throne-bearers are the angels entrusted with carrying the divine Throne; they glorify with praise of their Lord and seek forgiveness for the believers, as in Ghafir 7, Al-Haqqa 17, and Fatir 1. They are among the greatest of the angels in station, and their number is eight on the most famous report in the tradition ^{1 2}.

• Ghafir 7: "Those who carry the Throne and those around it glorify with the praise of their Lord and believe in Him and seek forgiveness for those who have believed" — and in it their description with carrying, bearing, glorifying and seeking forgiveness ¹.
• Al-Haqqa 17: "And your Lord is God who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then established Himself upon the Throne" — and in tafsir "established Himself" upon the Throne after creating it, and the Throne-bearers are those entrusted with it ^{1 2}.
• Fatir 1: "Praise be to God, the Originator of the heavens and the earth" — and in it that the angels are God's messengers who carry revelation and the Throne ¹.
• Al-Haqqa 35 and Al-Buruj 15 in the context of the Throne and the dominion — and in them scenes without naming ¹.

• It was related that God created eight angels who carry the Throne, as al-Tirmidhi narrated in "al-Shama'il" and al-Tabarani in "al-Awsat" — and in its chain is a problem according to some of them ^{3 4}.
• In a narration "God created eight of the angels... who raise the Throne" ³.
• In a hadith "as if they were shining stars" in the description of the Throne and its bearers ^{5 6}.
• In a narration that "there is no place in the heavens of four fingers except that in it is the forehead of a prostrating angel" — and in it the multitude of the angels ⁶.

• They are among the greatest of the angels in station, the ones entrusted with the Throne which is the greatest of creatures ^{2 7}.
• They glorify with praise of their Lord night and day, and seek forgiveness for the believers ¹.
• In a narration their "feet are in the farthest reaches of the earth and their heads at the Throne" — and it is of the Isra'iliyyat, and the principle is that they are entrusted with the Throne ^{8 9}.

Ibn Kathir details that the Throne-bearers are the angels entrusted with carrying it, and mentions that their number is eight on the most famous report, even if another was narrated ². And al-Qurtubi held that "and those around it" in Ghafir 7 are the Throne-bearers and those with them ⁷.

• "The Throne-bearers" is a Qur'anic name in Ghafir 7, and the number eight is from the tradition, not from the Qur'an ².
• Their companions in greatness are Israfil on Israfil's page and Jibril on Jibril's page.
• What is narrated about their cosmic description is of the Isra'iliyyat, and the principle is that they are entrusted with the Throne ⁸.