Al-Khallāl said: Abū Bakr al-Marwadhī informed us: I asked Abū ‘Abd Allāh, “What do you say concerning the hadith of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ‘Allah created Adam in his image’?” He replied, “Al-A‘mash transmits it from Habīb ibn Abī Thābit, from ‘Atā’, from Ibn ‘Umar.” He added, “Abū al-Zinād also narrated it from al-A‘raj, from Abū Hurayra, from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, with the wording ‘in his image.’ So we say just what has come in the hadith.”

He said: I also heard Abū ‘Abd Allāh say, “I certainly heard al-Humaydī in the presence of Sufyān ibn