about the Dajjāl and the Jassāsah, he rejoiced at this and said, “He told me an account that agrees with what I had told you.”

Once this is understood, we say: Taking the pronoun to refer to anyone other than Allah is untenable for several reasons. First, the report in the two Sahīh collections begins: “Allah created Adam in His image; his height was sixty cubits.” Other hadiths state, “Allah created Adam in His image,” without any prior mention of someone to whom the pronoun could refer.