Many things in the Quran and hadith are called Allah's mercy. Rain, paradise or forgiveness are among those things. They are not the attribute itself, rather the manifestation of it. When the hadith describe Allah creating mercy, it does not speak of the attribute either. It does not say Allah created "His" Mercy
"Verily Allah created Mercy. The day He created it, He made it into one hundred parts. He withheld with Him ninety-nine parts, and sent its one part to all His creatures".
Allah thus created something that manifests His mercy, like the rain, paradise or forgiveness mentionned earlier. It is that thing, not his attribute of mercy, that was divided into 100 parts. This shows the intensity of God's attribute of mercy; when even a manifestation of it, then divided into 100 parts, with a single of those parts allowing the unfathomable beneficial intricacies of existence, then what is to say of Allah's attribute of mercy itself
16:18"And if you would count Allah's favors, you will not be able to number them; most surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful".
The following version of the hadith makes it clearer that it is not God's attribute itself that was created, rather something that generates all aspects of mercy found in existence
"Verily, Allah created, on the same very day when He created the heavens and the earth, one hundred parts of mercy. Every part of mercy is coextensive with the space between the heavens and the earth and He out of this mercy endowed one part to the earth and it is because of this that the mother shows affection to her child and even the beasts and birds show kindness to one another and when there would be the Day of Resurrection, Allah would make full (use of Mercy)".
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