Other such spurious interpretations include:
For example, some have claimed that the Prophet’s ﷺ statement, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ dealt with the people of Khaybar for half of what came out of it in fruit and crops” (1) means that he imposed the jizya upon them. This is a lie against the wording and a lie against the Messenger, for that is not what the wording means, and the people of Khaybar were not placed under jizya; rather, he concluded a treaty with them and Khaybar was opened before the legislation of jizya was revealed.

Another case is the gloss offered by some on his ﷺ words, “A single suckling or two sucklings do not make unlawful (through fosterage)” (2), construing it to mean merely the infant’s latching onto the breast without drinking the milk so that it reaches his stomach.

And there are many times more than these of such false interpretations—so numerous that they cannot be counted—of which the listener knows with absolute certainty that they were never intended in the discourse, for the very words indicate the opposite from every angle and in no way accord (3) with the aim of clarification and indication (4).

Shaykh al-Islam (5) said: “If the truth were as these deniers assert—assertions for which nothing is to be found in the Qur’an and Sunnah, in the discourse of the three generations held in highest esteem over all others, or in the words of any of the imams of Islam who are to be followed; rather, what is in the Qur’an, the Sunnah, and the statements of the early generations and the imams is found to point (6) to the very contrary of what they deem to be true, either explicitly or implicitly, indeed to point in their view to unbelief and misguidance—then it would necessarily follow that…"}