"And [there] will bear the Throne of your Lord above them"—that is, above the created beings—"that Day, eight [of them]" (69:17). Qatada said: They are four angels today, and on that Day, they will be eight.

Yahya [narrated] from Ibrahim ibn Muhammad, from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, who said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: 'I have been permitted to speak about one of the angels who bear the Throne; his feet are in the lowest earth, and the Throne is upon his head. Between his earlobe and his shoulder is the distance of seven hundred years of a bird's flight. He says: Glory be to You, wherever You are.'