The Book of Paradise, its Description, its Bounties and its Inhabitants
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 7163
السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ فَقَالُوا السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكَ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ - قَالَ - فَزَادُوهُ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ - قَالَ - فَكُلُّ مَنْ يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ عَلَى صُورَةِ آدَمَ وَطُولُهُ سِتُّونَ ذِرَاعًا فَلَمْ يَزَلِ الْخَلْقُ يَنْقُصُ بَعْدَهُ حَتَّى الآنَ
as-salāmu ʿalaykum faqālūā as-salāmu ʿalayka waraḥmah Allāh-qāla-fazādūhu waraḥmah Allāh-qāla-fakullu man yadkhulu al-jannaha ʿalā ṣūrah ādama waṭūluhu sittūna dhirāʿan falam yazali al-khalqu yanquṣu baʿdah ḥattā al-āna
Transliteration generated from the Arabic vowel marks
The full narration
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, created Adam in His image with His length of sixty cubits, and as He created him He told him to greet that group, and that was a party of angels sitting there, and listen to the response that they give him, for it would form his greeting and that of his offspring. He then went away and said: Peace be upon you! They (the angels) said: May there be peace upon you and the Mercy of Allah, and they made an addition of" Mercy of Allah". So he who would get into Paradise would get in the form of Adam, his length being sixty cubits, then the people who followed him continued to diminish in size up to this day
Source
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim · 7163
- Agreed upon as authentic (al-Bukhārī / Muslim)