Bearers of the Throne

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The four supporters (angels) of the celestial throne

Bearers of the Throne or also known as ḥamlat al-arsh (

Arabic: حملة العرش, romanized: Ḥamālat al - Arsh),[1][2] are a group of angels in Islam.[3]

The Quran mentions them in

Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin.[4]

Description

In Islamic traditions, The eight Hamalat al-Arsh are group of angels who bearing the Throne of God.

Day of Resurrection.[6] The similar commentaries of the verse text also came from various scholars which compiled by Islamic University of Madinah and Indonesian religious ministry, such as Abdul-Rahman al-Sa'di, Wahbah al-Zuhayli, and Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar, about Quran chapter Al-Haqqa verse 69:17[7]

They are often portrayed in zoomorphic forms. Al-Suyuti who quoted Wahb ibn Munabbih, and Al-Bayhaqi in book of al Asma' wa al Sifat, that each of those different anthropomorphic angels has four faces of a human, bull, vulture, and lion.[8] Other hadiths describes them with six wings and four faces.[9] Meanwhile, al-Suyuti narrated the Hamalat al-Arsh has four wings.[8]

According to a hadith transmitted from

rooster, with their feet on the earth and their nape supporting the Throne of God in the highest sky.[Notes 1] a number modern Islamic scholars from Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, and other institutes in Yemen and Mauritania also agreed the soundness of this hadith by quoting the commentary from Ibn Abi al-Izz, a classical era scholar who supported this narrative.[10]

These four angels are also held to be created from four different elements: light, fire, water, and mercy.[citation needed] in his commentary about Al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya, Ibn Abi al-Izz has quoted a hadith regarding the physical size of the angel which authored by Abu Dawud al-Sijistani, It is also said they are so large that a journey from their earlobes to their shoulders would take seven hundred years.[11][12][13]

According to

Ibn al-Mubarak, archangel Israfil is one of the bearers of the throne.[14]

Similar beings in other religions

The portrayal of these angels is comparable to the

cherubim or seraphim of Jewish traditions.[16]

See also

Notes

  1. Sunan Abu Dawood.[10]

References

  1. ISBN 9780759101906
    . Retrieved 8 December 2023. Cyril Glassé. HAMĀLAT AL - ARSH - HAMMURABI Ḥamālat al - Arsh ( lit. " bearers of the throne " ) . The eight Angels whom the Koran mentions as the bearers of the throne of God
  2. ^ حملة العرش Google Translate
  3. ISBN 9780877790426
    . Retrieved 8 December 2023. Hardcover
  4. ^ Gimaret, Daniel. "The Psalms of Islam. Al-ṣahīfat al-kāmilat al-sajjādiyya, Imam Zayn al-‛ Abidin‛ Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn, translated with an Introduction and Annotation by William C. Chittick. The Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (London, England 1988; distributed by Oxford University Press)." Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 7.1 (1991): 59–61.
  5. ISBN 9780825446221
    . Retrieved 8 December 2023. hamalat al-'arsh who bear up the throne of God
  6. ^ The Asiatic Journal. Black, Parbury, & Allen. 1839. p. 195. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  7. Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance
    . Retrieved 8 December 2023. Malaikat-malaikat dari segala penjuru langit menyangga Arsy Tuhannya di atas kepala mereka pada hari kiamat. Jumlah mereka adalah 8 malaikat.
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    ISBN 9789795929512. Retrieved 9 August 2023. Quoting Amir al-Sha'bi
  9. ISBN 978-1-136-50473-0
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  10. ^ a b c Abdullaah Al-Faqeeh; Fatwa centers & Islamic educational institutes in Yemen and Mauritania (2013). "رتبة حديث: أذن لي أن أحدث عن ملك من ملائكة الله من حملة العرش..." [The rank of hadith: Permit me to narrate on the authority of one of the angels of God from among the bearers of the Throne... Fatwa Number: 205000]. Islamweb (in Arabic). Saudi Arabia: Al-Imaam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
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  12. ^ Ibn Abi al-Izz (1997). Fawzi Abd al-Hamid Hamzah, Khalid (ed.). تقريب وترتيب شرح العقيدة الطحاوية: لابن ابي العز الحنفي [approachment and arrangement of the explanation of the Tahawi faith: by Ibn Abi al-Izz al-Hanafi] (in Arabic). مكتبة الضياء ؛. p. 609. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  13. ^ Ibn Abi al-Izz (1969). Al-Albani, Muhammad Nasir al-Din (ed.). مختصر شرح العقيدة الطحاوية [A brief explanation of the al-Tahawiyya creed] (in Arabic). دار النذير للطباعة والنشر،. p. 145. Retrieved 17 March 2024. - أُذِن لي أن أُحَدِّثَ عن ملَكِ من ملائكةِ اللهِ عز وجل من حملةِ العرشِ ، إن ما بين شحمةِ أذنِه إلى عاتقِه مسيرةَ سبعمائةِ عامٍ
  14. ISBN 9789795929512
    . Retrieved 6 February 2022. Quoting Ibnul Mubarak from a book of az-Zuhd; ad Durr al-Manshur, chain narration from Ibnul Mubarak to Ibn SHihab (1/92)
  15. ISBN 9781601360007
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  16. OCLC 6015512997. INIST 2883962
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