Guidance on the hadith: “Indeed, Allah created Adam in His image”

Question : If someone were to say that it is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said , and that this indicates that Adam’s face is similar to the face of Allah, and that you say that Allah has a face that is not like the faces of the created beings, what is the answer to this hadith?

Answer : We said: This hadith is among the ambiguous hadiths. Whoever has a deviation in his heart follows it, and he makes it contradict the Qur’an, pitting parts of the Qur’an against each other, saying: This Qur’an says “There is nothing like Him,” and this hadith says . So which do we believe? Which is the truth? He follows the ambiguous. But as for those firmly grounded in knowledge, Allah opens up for them, and they know how to reconcile the texts. They say in answering this hadith that the meaning of “He created Adam in His image” is: in the form that He, Glorified and Exalted is He, chose, and He created it in the best form.
So the attribution of the image to Allah is an attribution of creation and honor, like His saying “the she-camel of Allah,” “the houses of Allah,” “the mosques of Allah,” and the like. This is found in the Qur’an and is not impossible for Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
The second interpretation is that we say “in His image” means in the image of Allah, which is His attribute. It does not follow from something being in the image of something else that it is identical to it.
The evidence for this is that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) informed that the first group to enter Paradise will be in the image of the moon. It is known that they are not in the image of the moon in every respect. The moon has no eye, no nose, and no mouth, whereas the one who enters Paradise has an eye, a nose, and a mouth. Yes, this indicates that it does not follow from something being in the image of something else that it is identical to it.