Adam's body was made of clay, and he mixed water with dirt, then breathed a soul and a spirit into him. It was mentioned in the first prophecy in some of the books revealed to a prophet among the Children of Israel, the text of which I will mention now, as there is a need to mention it, for the truest news is what was narrated from God Almighty, so we narrated it from Muslima. Ibn Waddah, with his chain of transmission, and he was from the people of Cordoba. He said,

God said in some of what He revealed to the prophets of the Children of Israel, “I created, meaning Adam, from dust and water, and breathed into him a soul and a spirit, so I formed his body from the dust, his moisture from the water, his heat from the soul, and his coldness.” From the spirit, he said: Then after this I made four other types in the body, one of which does not subsist except with the other, namely bile, blood, and phlegm. Then I made them dwell in one another, so I made the abode of dryness in