Bearers of the Throne

Bearers of the Throne or also known as ḥamlat al-arsh (حملة العرش), are a group of angels in Islam.

The Quran mentions them in and. They are mentioned in the al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, a book of prayers attributed to Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin.

Description
In Islamic traditions, the Hamalat al-Arsh are a group of angels whose sole task is to bear the Throne of God. Ibn Abbas has said that when the Day of resurrection commences, the Bearers of the Throne will increase from four, to eight angels. 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

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. Other hadiths describe them with six wings and four faces. Meanwhile, al-Suyuti narrated the Hamalat al-Arsh has four wings.

According to a hadith transmitted from At-Targhib wat-Tarhib authored by ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm ibn ʻAbd al-Qawī al-Mundhirī, the bearers of the throne shaped like a rooster, with their feet on the earth and their nape supporting the Throne of God in the highest sky. 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.

These four angels are also held to be created from four different elements: light, fire, water, and mercy. 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.

According to Al-Suyuti who quoted a Hadith transmitted by Ibn al-Mubarak, archangel Israfil is one of the bearers of the throne.

Similar beings in other religions
The portrayal of these angels is comparable to the seraphim in the Book of Revelation. They might be identified with cherubim or seraphim of Jewish traditions.