Here is a commandment of Almighty God contained in a Quranic verse :
So much so that when any one of you dies, Our angels take him into their possession and they do not exceed the limit.
Ibn ‘Abbasرضي الله عنه, while elucidating the meaning of this Qur’anic verse, has said: The angels referred to in this verse are meant to be the helper angels of the angel of death (Malakh il-Maut - Izra’il).
And Wahb b. O Munabbihرضي الله عنه has said: «The angels who visit the man and record his age, take his life also and after taking that they hand it over to the angel of death (Malakh il-Maut - Izra’il) who is their leader.”
In Islamic tradition, the Angel of Death is named Izra'il. The Quran uses the term Malak al Maut, which means Angel of Death. Jewish Kabbalistic tradition uses the name (Malakh il-Maut - Izra’il), which also means Angel of Death
There is a tradition from Abu Hurairah رضي الله عنه that when the Almighty God decided to create Adam, one of the angels supporting heaven was sent down to the earth to bring some clay. As he was about to take clay the earth said: ‘‘I adjure you in the name of that Hallowed Being, who hath sent you not to take clay from me as tomorrow it will have to burnin the Fire.”
On hearing this, the angel dropped the idea. When he presented himself to God, He asked him: ‘Who prohibited you to carry out My order ?”’ The angel implored: “O God! The earth begged me in Thy name not to take clay and so I dropped the idea.” Then the Almighty God deputed another angel to bring clay from the earth. To him also the earth begged in the name of Allah
not to do so. Subsequently, God sent down all the angels one by one and all of them were helpless in bringing the clay.
Thereupon, the Almighty God sent down the angel of death (Hadrat Izra’il). When the angel of death determined to take clay, the earth implored him also in the name of Allah, not to do so. The angel of death said to the earth: ‘“‘I must comply with the order of One Who has sent me to the earth.” Then he took from each and every part of the earth some clay of good and bad quality and appeared before God and fashioned Adam’s body by fermenting that with Heaven’s water. Zuhriرَحِمَهَا ٱللَّٰهُ has also narrated such a tradition.
He said that the former angel was Israfil while the latter was Mikail. Abdullah Ibn Mas‘udرضي الله عنه and many other companions of Rasulullah have said that the prominent angels are Gabriel and Mikail.
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