Hadith 53

Tafseer Al-Askari-asws – He-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic, when He-azwj Created the Throne, Created three hundred and sixty thousand corners for it, and Created at each corner three hundred and sixty thousand Angels. If Allah-azwj was to Permit the smallest of them, he would swallow the seven skies and the seven earths – and that would not be in mouth except like a grain of sand loosely in the wasteland. Allah-azwj the Exalted Said to them: “O My-azwj servants! – Carry this Throne of Mine-azwj! ’ So they came to it, but they were not able to carry it, nor (even) move it. So Allah-azwj Created one (more), along with each one of them, but they were (still) not able to unsettle it. So Allah-azwj created ten (more) with each one of them, but they were (still) not able to move it. So Allah-azwj the Exalted Created with the number of each one of them, the like of their group. But, they were not able to move it. Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said to their group: “Leave it upon Me-azwj until I-azwj Hold it with My-azwj Power! ” So Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Held it by His-azwj Power. Then He-azwj Said to eight of them: ‘Carry it! ” But they said, ‘O our Lord-azwj! We and these numerous creatures and the myriads could not bear it, so how can we (eight) bear it now beside them? ’
Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: “I-azwj, I-azwj am Allah-azwj! The Drawer closer of the distant, and I-azwj Humiliate the stubborn, and the Lightener of the heavy, and the Easer of the difficult! I-azwj Do whatever I-azwj so Desire to and I-azwj Decide with whatever I-azwj Want to. I-azwj shall Teach you all certain words (for you) to be saying these, by which it would be lightened upon you’. They said, ‘And what are these, O our Lord-azwj? ’ He-azwj Said: “You should be saying, ‘In the Name of Allah-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful’ and, ‘There is neither Might nor Strength except with Allah-azwj the Exalted, the Magnificent’, and send Salawat upon Muhammadsaww and hissaww goodly Progenyasws”. So they said it and it was light upon their shoulders – like a hair growing upon a shoulder of a man, rigid (and) strong. Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said to the rest of those Angels: “Leave My-azwj Throne to be upon the shoulders of these eight in order to carry it, and you (all) should be performing Tawaaf around it, and be Praising Me-azwj and Glorifying Me-azwj and Extolling My-azwj Holiness, for I-azwj, I-azwj am Allah-azwj, the Able upon what you are seeing, and Iasws an Able upon everything”. [57]