‘Uyaynah spoke concerning him until he was expelled. I think he engaged in speculative theology.”

Al-Khallāl said: Harb ibn Ismā‘īl al-Kirmānī informed me: I heard Ishāq ibn Rāhawayh say, “It has been authentically established that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ‘Allah created Adam in the image of the Most Merciful.’ One is only required to say what the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, is authentically reported to have said.”