Allah is the creator of the skies and does not dwell in them

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As for the hadith that was narrated by At-Tirmidhiyy:

[which means] Those who are merciful, Ar-Rahman is Merciful to them. Be merciful to
whoever is on Earth and whoever is in the Sky will be merciful to you.
According to another narration, the
h
ad
i
th
is:

[which means] the People of the Sky will be merciful to you. This narration explains the
first narration. That is because the best thing by which the narrated
h
ad
i
th
is explained is another narrated
h
ad
i
th
, just as said by
Ha
fi
dh
Al-^Ir
a
qiyy
in his millennial poem:

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[which means] The best thing by which you have explained a hadith is another narrated hadith
.

Furthermore, what is meant by The People of the Sky is the Angels. That was mentioned by H
a f
i
dh
Al-^Ir
a
qiyy
in his dictation sessions after he mentioned this
h
ad
i
th
. His exact statement is By the Prophets saying,
The People of the Sky
, it is proven that what is meant by the Saying of
All
a
h
in the verse:

[which means] Do you feel secure from who is in the sky? is the Angels. That is because
All
a
h
is not referred to as The People of the Sky. The word [
man
; who] is used for the singular and the plural. Therefore, there is no evidence in this verse for
that. The same is said about the verse that comes after that verse:

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[which literally means] Or do you feel secure from who is in the sky from sending stones
upon you? So man [who] in this verse is also The People of the Sky
and not the one in the sky. Certainly Allah sends
Angels to the blasphemers if He willed to punish them in the present life, just like in the
Hereafter; they are the ones appointed with inflicting the punishment on the blasphemers,
because they are the caretakers of Hell, and they pull a section of Hell to the place of Judgment
so that the blasphemers will be terrified by seeing it.

The expression of that narration narrated by Hafidh Al-^Iraqiyy in his dictation session is:

[which means] Those who are merciful, Ar-Rahim is Merciful to them. Be merciful to the
people of the earth and the people of the sky will be merciful to you.

Furthermore, had Allah been residing in the sky like some people claimed, He would be
crowding the Angels. This is impossible because of the hadith which
has been confirmed:

[which means] There is not a four-fingered space in the sky, and in a narration a
handspan
,
except that it has an angel in the standing position, or the bowing position, or
prostration.
Likewise the
h
ad

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i
th
which is narrated by
Al-Bukh
a
riyy
and
Muslim
from the route of
Ab
u
Sa^
i
d Al-Khudriyy
that the Messenger of
All
a
h
said:

[which means] Do you not deem me as trustworthy while I am deemed trustworthy by

who is in the sky? The news of who is in the sky comes to me day and night.
What is meant by this is also the Angels, and if
All
a
h
is meant by the
h
ad
i
th
, then it means the One Who Has a very high Status.

As for the hadith of Zaynab Bint Jahsh, the wife of the Prophet , that she used to say to the
wives of the Messenger, Your families gave you in marriage, and
All
a
h

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gave me in marriage from above seven Skies, it means that the Prophets marriage to her was
recorded in the Guarded Tablet. So this is a marriage contract that is specific to
Zaynab
; it is not the ordinary marriage contract. The normal marriage contract is for all of the people,
and every marriage that takes place until the end of the world is recorded on the Tablet, which
is above the Seven Skies.

As for the hadith, which in it is:

...

[which means] By the One Who Controls my soul, there is no man who calls his wife to
his bed and she refuses except that the one who is in the sky would be angry with her,
until the end of the
h
ad
i
th
. This is also taken to be in reference to the Angels. The proof for that is the second authentic
narration, which is even more famous than the previous one:

[which means] The Angels will damn her until the dawn. This hadith was narrated by Ibn H
ibb
a
n
and others.

As for the hadith of Abu-d-Darda that the Messenger of Allah said:

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[which means] O our Lord, the One in the sky, Your Name is Holy, it is not an authentic hadith
; rather, it is weak, as judged by
Ha
fi
dh
Ibnul-Jawziyy
. Had it been authentic, then its case would be like what passed in the
h
ad
i
th
of the slave girl [
i.e.
, it would mean the One with a high Status and not the one in the sky].

As for the hadith of Jubayr ibn Mut^im, from the Prophet :

[which means] Certainly, Allah is on His ^Arsh above His Skies and His Skies are over His
Earths like a dome, Al-Bukhariyy did not
narrate this ha
d
i
th
in his book of
s
a
hih
, so there is no evidence in it. In its chain of narration is a weak narrator, and what he narrates
is not taken as evidence. That was mentioned by
Ibnul-Jawziyy
and others.

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Likewise, Al-Bukhariyy narrated in his book, Khalq Af^al Al-^Ibad from the route of Ibn ^Abba
s
that the Messenger of
All
a
h
said:

[which means] When Allah Spoke to Musa, His Call was in the sky and Allah was in the sky.
This hadith is
not confirmed, so it is not taken as evidence.

As for the saying that is attributed to Imam Malik:

[which means] Allah is in the sky and His Knowledge is everywhere and nothing is devoid of
Him, it is also not confirmed from Malik. It does not have a continuous
chain of narration. Abu Dawud
did not narrate that from
Im
a
mM
a
lik
with a
s
a
hih
chain of narration, instead, he narrated it in his book
Al-Ma
sa

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l
, and the mere narration of something is not a confirmation [of its validity].

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