Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Haaqqa, Ayah 17
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Tafsir
and the angels will be all over its borders the edges of the heavens and above them — the angels that have been mentioned — on that day eight angels or eight files of them will carry the Throne of your Lord.
Related Hadiths
Angels take turns among you by night and by day, and the rest of the hadith is the same.
I have been permitted to tell about one of Allah’s angels who bears the throne that the distance between the lobe of his ear and his shoulder is a journey of seven hundred years.
There is an angel on every door of the mosque recording him first who (comes) first (to the mosque for Friday prayer). And he likened him to one who offers a camel as a sacrifice and then he went on ...
" Placing its (mantle's) ends on his shoulders" ; and the narration transmitted by Abu Bakr and Suwaid (the words are):" the ends crossing with each other".
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And the angels will be on the sides thereof) on its extremities, sides, different directions and parts (and eight) He says: eight different angels, each one of them has four different faces: a human face, a face of an eagle, a face of a lion, and a face of a bull; and it is also said: eight rows; and it is also said: eight parts of the Cherubim, who dwell on the seventh heaven (will uphold the Throne of their Lord that day) the Day of Judgement, (above them) on their necks.