The Denizens of Hell: Men or Angels?

The Quran here and there tells us of people in hell but there is one oddity that I shall bring to the reader's attention.

S 74:31 And we have not made the companions of the fire but angels. And we have not made their number except as fitnah for those who have disbelieved that those who were given the Book may be certain and that those who have believed may increase in faith and that those who were given the Book and the believers may not doubt and that those in whose hearts is disease and the kafirun may say: What did Allah want by this example? Thus Allah misguides whom he wills and guides whom he wills. And none knows your lord’s troops but him. And it is nothing but a remembrance for the human being.

Not men but angels damned? Why might angels be damned?

It might conceivably be argued that the 'companions of the fire' are the 19 (or in a variant 17) angels supposedly over hell. But the same phrase is used in other passages and (for the most part) is in reference to human beings.

S 2:39 And those who have disbelieved and have called our verses a lie, those are the companions of the fire. They abide therein indefinitely.

S 2:81 Yes, he who has earned an evil deed and his sin has surrounded him, those are the companions of the fire; they abide therein indefinitely.

S 2:217 They ask you about the sacred month, fighting in it. Say: Fighting in it is big and blocking from the way of Allah, and kufr in him, and the Sacred Mosque, and expulsion of its people from it, is bigger with Allah. And fitnah is bigger than killing. And they still fight you until they bring you back from your religion if they can. And he who bounces back among you from his religion then dies while he is a kafir, those--their deeds have become worthless in the dunya and the hereafter. And those are the companions of the fire, they abide indefinitely therein.

S 2:257 Allah is the protector of those who have believed. He brings them out of the darknesses into the light. And those who have disbelieved, their protectors are the taghut. They bring them out of the light into the darknesses. Those are the companions of the fire, they abide therein indefinitely.

S 2:275 Those who consume interest do not stand up except as the one whom the Devil fumbles with with touch stands up. That is because they have said: Selling is only the like of interest. And Allah has permitted selling and forbidden interest. So he whom admonition from his lord has come to and he has ceased, his is what has passed and his affair is to Allah and he who has returned, those are the companions of the fire, they abide therein indefinitely.

S 3:116 Those who have disbelieved, their monies will not avail them, nor their children, against Allah at all and those are the companions of the fire. They abide therein indefinitely.

S 5:29 I want you to return with my sin and your sin and you to be of the companions of the fire, and that is the recompense of the wrongdoers.

S 7:36 And those who have called our verses a lie and have been arrogant towards them, those are the companions of the fire, they abiding therein indefinitely.

S 7:44 And the companions of the Jannah called to the companions of the fire: We have found what our lord promised us to be true. So have you found what your lord promised to be true? They said: Yes. Then a caller called among them: Allah’s curse is upon the wrongdoers,

S 7:47 And when their eyesight was turned facing the companions of the fire they said: Our lord, do not put us with the wrongdoing people.

S 7:50 And the companions of the fire called to the companions of the Jannah: Pour out upon us some of the water or of what Allah has provided you with. They said: Allah has forbidden them to the kafirun.

S 10:27 And those who have earned the evil deeds, recompense of an evil deed with the like of it and humiliation covers them. They have no defender from Allah. As though their faces had been covered with a piece of the night. Dark. Those are the companions of the fire. They abide therein indefinitely.

S 13:5 And if you wonder then a wonder is their speech: When we were dust are we in a new creation? Those are the ones who have disbelieved in their lord and those, the collars are on their necks and those are the companions of the fire. They abide therein indefinitely.

S 39:8 And when harm befalls man he invokes his lord, turning to him. Then when he bestows grace upon him from him he forgets what he used to invoke to him before and makes peers for Lah to misguide from his way. Say: Enjoy your kufr for a short while. You are of the companions of the fire.

S 40:6 And thus your lord’s word was confirmed against those who disbelieved that they are the companions of the fire.

S 40:43 There is no misdemeanour that what you call me to has no call in the dunya or in the hereafter and that our reason is to Allah and that the extravagant are the companions of the fire.

S 58:17 Their monies will not avail them nor their children against Allah at all. Those are the companions of the fire; they abide therein indefinitely.

S 59:20 Not equal are the companions of the fire and the companions of the Jannah. The companions of the Jannah are the victors.

S 64:10 And those who have disbelieved and called our verses a lie, those are the companions of the fire, abiding therein indefinitely. And miserable was the destiny.

S 7:179 says: And we have created for Jahannam many of jinn and man. They have hearts they do not comprehend with and they have eyes they do not see with. And they have ears they do not hear with. Those are like cattle, rather, they are more astray. Those, they are the heedless.

Jinn created specifically for hell. Angels too?