The Keepers of the Fire, The nineteen guards
The unseenThe nineteen guards
The Keepers of the Fireالزبانية
Stern and severe angels set over Hell; the Quran says there are nineteen.
Over Saqar are nineteen, the Quran says, and Allah made their number a test. The disbelievers mocked it, thinking they could overpower nineteen. The keepers are harsh and strong and never disobey. They ask those thrown in: did no warner come to you?
What does the Quran say?
Over it are nineteen [angels].
Quran 74:30
The lesson
The Quran's details are sometimes a test of whether we believe or mock.
Who else is linked?
Source: the Quran
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
The unseen
- The Angels
- Jibril
- Mikail
- Israfil
- The Angel of Death
- Munkar and Nakir
- Kiraman Katibin
- The Guardian Angels
- The Bearers of the Throne
- Malik, keeper of the Fire
- The Keepers of the Fire
- Ridwan
- Harut and Marut
- The Guests of Ibrahim
- The Angels Who Spoke to Maryam
- The Two Disputants of Dawud
- The Angels of Badr
- The Angels Who Pray for Believers
- The Angels of the Night of Decree
- The Jinn
- The Jinn Who Listened
- The Eavesdropping Devils
- The Qarin
- The Jinn of Sulayman
- The Ifrit of Sulayman
- The Hur al-Ayn
- The Youths of Paradise
- The Beast of the Earth