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It is exactly as he stated—if not even higher. He first cited it in abridged form through a number of transmitters, among them ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad, and then produced it in its complete version with his uninterrupted chain back to Ibn Masʿūd. ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad likewise recorded it in full in al-Sunnah (p. 177), and the author declared in al-Arbaʿīn (186/1): “It is a sound ḥadith.”
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Part of the report was narrated by Sufyān al-Thawrī and others from Salamah ibn Kuhayl, from Abū al-Zaʿrāʾ, from Ibn Masʿūd, and it contains the words: “Allah will present Himself to the creation, then He will come to them in His own form.” This wording is also preserved in the ḥadith of Abū Hurayrah and Abū Saʿīd.
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn used to say—as Isḥāq ibn al-Ṭabbāʿ transmitted from him—when someone remarked, “Allah is too exalted and too magnificent to be seen in this manner,” he replied, “You fool! Allah never changes from His grandeur1; rather, it is your eyes that He alters so that you may see Him as He wills.”
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I say: The two Shaykhs, al-Bukhārī and Muslim, included this narration from both companions in their Ṣaḥīḥs within the lengthy ḥadith on the vision of Allah in the Hereafter. It was also recorded by others, among them Ibn Khuzaymah in al-Tawḥīd (pp. 113–115) and al-Bayhaqī in al-Asmāʾ (pp. 291–296).
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Ḥadith of Abū Hurayrah: the Prophet ﷺ took me by the hand and said,
“O Abū Hurayrah, Allah created the heavens, the earth, and whatever lies between them in six days, then He rose over the Throne on the seventh day. He created the soil on Saturday, the mountains on Sunday, the trees on Monday, evil2 on Tuesday, light on Wednesday, the beasts on Thursday, and Adam on Friday in the last hour of the day after ʿaṣr. He created him from the surface of the earth—its red and its black, its good and its bad—and for that reason Allah brought forth from Adam both the good and the wicked.”
Al-Nasāʾī recorded it in his Tafsīr under Sūrat al-Sajdah, and al-Akhdar ibn ʿAjlān—the narrator of the report—was declared trustworthy by Ibn Maʿīn.