All this despite the fact that most of the reinterpretations of authentic hadiths in his book are those of al-Marīsī and other Jahmīs like him.

A hadith may describe a dream, as in the hadith about seeing his Lord in the most beautiful form, yet they treat it as an event experienced while awake, place it on the night of the Ascension, and then reinterpret it.

The judge Abū Yaʿlā wrote his book Refuting Reinterpretation in response to Ibn Fūrak’s book. Although he supplied chains of transmission for the hadiths he cited and named their narrators, they include several fabricated hadiths, such as the report of seeing his Lord with his own eyes on the night of the Ascension, and similar reports.

His book also contains reports from some of the early generations that some people attributed to the Prophet, such as the report of the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, sitting on the Throne. Some people narrated this through many chains tracing it back to the Prophet, but all of these are fabricated. What is established is only that it is reported from Mujāhid and others of the early generations. The early generations and the imams would transmit it without rejecting it and receive it with acceptance.