they mention it even though they know it to be false, since their aim is to relate what has been transmitted on that subject.

It is permissible to transmit fabricated hadiths while explaining that they are false. However, transmitting them for people to act upon, without disclosing their falsity, is forbidden according to the scholars, because it is authentically established that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Whoever relates a hadith from me, believing it to be false, is one of the liars.”

Many scholars have done this, reasoning that they themselves were not lying, but merely conveying what others had narrated. This is less objectionable when they transmit it to make known that it