Allah ﷻ says:
Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High. (al-Aʿlā 87:1)
Allah ﷻ says:
We have certainly seen the turning of your face, [O Muhammad], toward the heaven. (al Baqara 2:144)
Allah ﷻ says:
They fear their Lord above them, and they do what they are commanded. (an Nahl 16:50)
Allah ﷻ says:
He regulates the affair of the heaven to the earth; then it will ascend to Him in a Day, (the) measure of which is a thousand years of what you count. (as Sajda 32:5)
Allah ﷻ says:
(It is) from Allah, Lord of the Ways of Ascent. (al Ma’arij 70:3)
Allah ﷻ says:
The angels and the Spirit (Jibreel ‘alayhis salam) ascend unto Him in a Day whereof the span is fifty thousand years. (al Ma’arij 70:4)
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “(A group of) angels stay with you at night and (another group of) angels by daytime. Both groups gather at the time of the ‘Asr and Fajr prayers. Then those angels who have stayed with you overnight, ascend (to Heaven) and Allah asks them (about you). And He knows everything about you. “In what state did you leave My slaves?’ The angels reply, ‘When we left them, they were praying, and when we reached them they were praying.’” [Sahih al-Bukhari #7429]
Allah ﷻ says:
[Mention] when Allah said, “O Jesus, indeed I will take you and raise you to Myself and purify you from those who disbelieve and make those who follow you [in submission to Allah alone] superior to those who disbelieve until the Day of Resurrection. Then to Me is your return, and I will judge between you concerning that in which you used to differ. (Al-i Imran 3:55)
Allah ﷻ says:
Rather, Allah raised him to Himself. And ever is Allah Exalted in Might and Wise. (an Nisa 4:158)
Allah ﷻ says:
Whoever desires honor [should know that] to Allah belongs all honor. To Him ascends good speech, and righteous work raises it. But they who plot evil deeds will have a severe punishment, and the plotting of those – it will perish. (Fatir 35:10)
Allah ﷻ says:
Do you feel secure that He who is in the heaven would not cause the earth to swallow you and suddenly it would sway? (al Mulk 67:16)
Allah ﷻ says:
Or do you feel secure that He who is in the heaven would not send against you a storm of stones? Then you would know how [serious] was My warning. (al Mulk 67:17)
When asked about the reason for fasting in Sha’ban, Rasulullah (sallallahu’alayhi wasallam) said: ‘That is a month in which people become neglectful as it occurs between [2 sacred months] Rajab and Ramadan. It is a month in which the deeds [of man] are raised up to Allah. I love that my deeds be raised while I am fasting.’ (Nasai, hadith: 2678 with a sound chain.)
Abu Musa reported:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was standing amongst us and (he said) four (things): Verily Allah does not sleep and it does not befit Him to sleep. He raises the scale and lowers it. The deeds of the day are presented to Him in the night and the deeds of the night in the day. (Saheeh Muslim #179)
Ibn Abi Shayba (D. 297H) said:
The whole creation has consensus (ijmaa) about that when they call upon Allah, they raise their hands towards heaven. And if Allah was on earth they would not have lifted their hands while He is on earth with them. And there are many narrations that Allah -exalted is He- created the throne and he raised himself on it (bi-dhaatihi). (Al-Arsh p.291)
Al-Darimi said:
“Allah exalted is He, is on His throne, above His heavens, apart (separate) from His creation, and whoever does not know Him as such, doesn’t know the god whom he worships.” (Al-Radd ala Al-Jahmiyya p.39)
The Muslims all agree that Allah is on His throne above the heavens. (Naqd Uthman bin Sa’ied Al-Darimi ala Al-Mirisi Al-Jahmi Al-‘anied 1/340)
“And we knew, with no doubt, that Allah is above His Throne, above His Heavens, like He described Himself, separate from His creation.” (Ar-Rad ala al-Jahmiya by Ad-Darimi p.36)
And he also said :
‘Even the worshippers in their Sujud are united upon ‘All glory to my lord the most High’, and you don’t see anyone saying: ‘My Lord the most low’. Even Firawn in his Kufr and tyranny against Allah knew that Allah azza wa’ jal is above the heavens. So he said: {And Pharaoh said, “O eminent ones, I have not known you to have a god other than me. Then ignite for me, O Haman, [a fire] upon the clay and make for me a tower that I may look at the God of Moses. And indeed, I do think he is among the liars.}
Thus in this Ayah is a clear proof and obvious indication that Moses was calling Pharoah to acknowledge that Allah is above the heavens. Hence why he [Pharoah] ordered the building of a tower, and aspired to ascend to Allah when Musa was calling him to acknowledge him in the heavens.’ Likewise Nimrud, the Pharoah of Ibrahim, had also aspired [when he] who took the chests and the eagle/vulture to ascend to Allah when Ibrahim was calling him to acknowledge he [Allah] is in the heavens.’ (Al-radd ala’ al-Jahmiyyah nr 56)
Ibn Battah said:
“The muslims from the sahaba and the tabi’in, and all of the people of knowledge from the muslimin, have unanimously agreed that Allah tabaraka wa ta’ala is on His Throne, above His heavens, separated from His creation, and His knowledge encompasses all of His creation.” (al Ibanah al Kubra 7/136)
Ali Ibn al-Hasan Ibn Shaqeeq reported:
» I asked Abdullah Ibn al-Mubarak (Allah have mercy upon him): “How are we to know our Lord –Azza wa Jal-?”
He replied: “He (Allah) is over the seventh Heaven over His Throne. Distinct from His creation.
I said (the narrator): With a Had (limit, boundary)? He said: with a Had which only He knows! (As-Sunnah by Abdullah bin Ahmad 1/175)
Al-Darimi said: And we takfeer them also because they don’t know where Allah is and they don’t describe him with “where”. And Allah described himself with “where”. And his prophet described him with “where” as he asked the slave girl: Where is Allah? She replied: In heaven. (Al-Radd ala Al-Jahmiyya 202)
Ibn Abee Haatim narrated that Hishaam bin ‘Ubaidillaah ar-Raazee, the companion of Muhammad bin al-Hasan, the Judge of ar-Rayy (the Faqeeh (Jurist). He was one of the Imams of the Sunnah who died 221AH) imprisoned a man due to his Jahmi beliefs (i.e. his denial of the Attributes of Allah) – he then repented from that. So he was brought to Hishaam so that he may be freed.
So Hishaam said: “All praise is due to Allah for this repentance,” and then he examined him and said: “Do you testify that Allah is over His Throne, distinct and separate from His creation?”
So the man responded: “I testify that Allah is over His Throne, however I do not know about Him being separate from His creation!”
Hishaam stated: “Put him back in prison – he has not repented!” (see Majmoo’ al-Fatawa 5/49)
Even the animals know that Allah is in heaven
Imam Ahmad narrated: “Sulayman bin Dawud (alayhimma salam) went out to ask Allah to send down rain upon the people. So he passed by an ant lying on its back and raising her legs towards the sky and she was saying: ‘O Allah, I am a creature of your creation and we cannot dispense with your provisions so either you give us rain or you let us perish.’ Sulayman (alayhi salam) said to the people: ‘Go back because you will be given rain because of the supplications of someone other than you.’ (Musnad Ahmad)