created Adam in His image.” This is the only hadith narrated by Yahyā ibn Mālik from Abū Hurayrah in the two Sahīh collections.

Regarding this, it should be said that among the early Muslims of the first three generations, there was no dispute that the pronoun in this hadith refers to Allah. It is widely transmitted through multiple chains from a number of the Companions, and the context of all these hadiths indicates this. It is also mentioned in the books held by the followers of the two Scriptures