“Allah created Adam in His image” — To whom does the pronoun refer?

The questioner : In the hadith , to whom does the pronoun refer?

The Shaykh : To Adam (peace be upon him).

The questioner : If it refers to Allah, what is the meaning of the hadith, and is the other narration considered denounced ?

The Shaykh : This narration is weak and not authentic. The explanation and detailed discussion of its weakness will come to you in the third volume of *Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Da'ifah* (The Series of Weak Hadiths). I submitted the indexes before coming to you, and the book was printed without the indexes. It contains a detailed discussion of the weakness of this hadith. Despite the concern of many people of the Sunnah to establish it, the science of hadith does not support establishing it; it is weak, indeed denounced, due to the addition of . The authentic version, as it came in Muslim and others, is only . It also came in *Sahih al-Bukhari* from the hadith of Abu Hurayrah with an addition that confirms that the pronoun refers to Adam, where he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: This is an explicit text that the pronoun refers to Adam (peace be upon him). If the hadith were authentic with the reference to Allah, we would believe in it, without asking how, without figurative interpretation, likening, or denial of the divine attributes. Yes.