Regarding the hadith: (That Allah created Adam in the image of the Most Merciful).

The questioner : Regarding the hadith: ?

The Shaykh : Raise your voice so that the others can hear. Yes.

The questioner : Regarding the hadith: .

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : A clarification of this hadith from the perspective of weakness and authenticity? ...

The Shaykh : We have previously discussed this hadith in writing in some of the volumes of "Al-Silsilah," and we clarified that it has no chain of narration that is valid and can be used as evidence. So I return to say that the hadith: does not have a chain of narration with the wording that serves as a proof. I have clarified this in writing and in lectures, and in my opinion, the matter is more than that; because this hadith—despite the weakness of its chain—contradicts, in terms of narration, the authentic hadith agreed upon byThe Shaykh : them, where they narrated it with a valid chain, naturally, with the wording: . So this pronoun is made explicit in the first narration, which has no valid chain, and at that time, the scientific rules of hadith science compel us to reject this addition that specifies the referent of the pronoun.

Another questioner: Peace be upon you.

The Shaykh- And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings - If we know that the authentic hadith was narrated with the wording: , and the first narration, which made explicit the implicit in the other narration, said: , then if we know that the chain of this narration is not valid, then at that time, what we know from hadith science compels us to say that it is an addition. The wording is an addition to the authentic, preserved narration, which said . For that reason, the scholars differed, both in the past and in recent times, regarding the referent of the pronoun in the authentic narration . And this disagreement, in my opinion, must be resolved, after we have come to know the narration of Imam al-Bukhari in his "Sahih" with the wording: ... So the authentic narration of al-Bukhari explains and clarifies the other authentic narration, which is his saying - may the prayer and peace of Allah be upon him - : . So the referent of the pronoun in "His image" became clear in the narration of Imam al-Bukhari with the wording: ; because this description, with this length, cannot validly in any way refer to anyone but Adam - may the prayer and peace of Allah be upon him -. And thus we conclude the problem of questioning and delving into the hadith , whether from the perspective of the narration that indicated the weakness of its chain, or from the perspective of the knowledge that indicated its anomaly and its contradiction of the narration agreed upon in chain, and its contradiction of the authentic narration of al-Bukhari which contradicts it in text. This is what I have in answer to this question.
Other than that?