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The person who fabricated these statements for them believed them to be true, or intended to mislead them. Likewise, many members of this community fabricate lies against the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, believing them to be genuine truths that people must accept. They therefore fabricate hadiths to persuade people to accept their beliefs. This has happened among various groups of adherents of religious innovations and speculative theology, and among some students of jurisprudence and practitioners of asceticism. Examples include al-Juwaybārī, who fabricated hadiths for the Murji'īs, the Karrāmīs, and others that accorded with their doctrines; some students of jurisprudence who fabricated hadiths supporting their opinions because they believed those opinions to be true; and a group of ascetics and worshippers who fabricated hadiths encouraging good deeds and warning against evil. They said: “We fabricated lies for him, not against him.” Likewise, others fabricated hadiths concerning the merits of particular people, places, times, and other things, and more besides, believing that what these reports implied was true, or for some other purpose.

Others among the heretics and religious deviants fabricated hadiths that contradict what reason clearly establishes, intending thereby to discredit Islam and make these reports grounds for impugning it. One example is the hadith about the sweat of horses, which claims that He created horses and made them run until they sweated, then created Himself from that sweat. No one who believed this hadith or others like it to be true would fabricate it, because of the obviousness of