The height of Prophet Adam

 بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

There has been a book written by shaykh Muntasir Zaman on the height of Prophet Adam (alaihi al-salam). The book is called "The Height of Prophet Adam: At the Crossroads of Science and Scripture".

It raises various concerns and valid points but missed some important things that affect his main argument. In brief, they are:

1) Various Hadiths, including the Hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari, describe the height of Prophet Ibrahim in the afterlife as very tall. In Sahih al-Bukhari, the Arabic text describes the height of Prophet Ibrahim in afterlife as طَوِيلٌ لاَ أَكَادُ أَرَى رَأْسَهُ طُولاً فِي السَّمَاءِ i.e. his head can almost not be seen, as it reaches the sky (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:7047).

We know from another Hadith that people will enter Jannah in form of Prophet Adam (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3326). This supports Hadith about Prophet Adam (as) being 60 cubits.

2) The Hadith that Muntasir criticised in Sahih al-Bukhari is reported via Hammam bin Munabbih from Abu Hurayra (ra). This is from the Sahifa of Hammam ibn Munabbih, which is actually one of the earliest written Hadith collections that are extant (https://shamela.ws/book/7776/60) i.e. recorded by the student of Abu Hurayra. This makes the chances of error as very slim.

Therefore, the criticisms of Muntasir against the height of Prophet Adam (as) are not valid. The way to reconcile the Hadith with science is to argue that perhaps his height of 60 cubits was in Jannah and was lowered when he was sent to Earth. This explains why people go from a normal height in Earth to 60 cubits when they go to Paradise.

Allahu a'lam.