💯 Miscellaneous benefits from Yemen

BENEFIT 64: THE 'ARSH IS THE HIGHEST CREATION It was narrated that Ibn Mas’ūd radhiyallāhu 'anhu said: “Between the first heaven and the one above it is (a distance of) five hundred years. And between each of the heavens is (a distance of) five hundred years. Between the seventh heaven and the Kursi (footstool) is (a distance of) five hundred years. Between the Kursi and the water is (a distance of) five hundred years. The Throne is above the water and Allāh is above the Throne, and nothing whatsoever of your deeds is hidden from Him.” [narrated by Ibn Khuzaymah in At-Tawḥīd & Bayhaqi in Al-Asmā' Waṣ-Ṣifāt; it was classed as 'Ṣaḥīḥ' by Ibnul Qayyim in Ijtimā’ al-Juyūsh Al-Islāmiyah & by Adh-Dhahabi in Al-‘Uluw] Sheikh ‘Uthaymeen raḥimahullāh said: “This ḥadīth stops at Ibn Mas’ūd (mawqūf), but this is one of the matters concerning which there is no room for personal opinion, so it comes under the heading of marfū’ [a ḥadīth whose chain of narration goes back to the Prophet ﷺ], because Ibn Mas’ūd is not known to have taken anything from the Isrā'īliyyāt [reports derived from Jewish sources].” [Al-Qawul Mufīd Sharḥ Kitāb At-Tawḥīd] Ibn Kathīr raḥimahullāh said: “He is the Lord of the Mighty Throne which is the roof of creation. All created things, the heavens and the earth and all that is in them and in between them are beneath the Throne of Allah... ” [Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr (Sūrah At-Tawbah 129)] The Throne is the roof of creation based on the ḥadīth of Hurairah radhiyallāhu anhu, that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, “There are one-hundred degrees in Paradise which Allah has prepared for those who carry on Jihad in His Cause. The distance between every two degrees is like the distance between the sky and the Earth, so if you ask Allah for anything, ask Him for Firdaus, for it is the last part of Paradise and the highest part of Paradise, and at its top there is the Throne of the Beneficent, and from it gush forth the rivers of Paradise.” [Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhāri 7423]