, he means only someone who introduces there an innovation contrary to what has been established as Sunnah and prescribed. Crimes are termed ahdāth (occurrences), and by ihdāth (bringing about) they mean initiating something that did not previously exist. Examples of this usage include:

“Allah brings about whatever He wills of His command.”

“No new reminder comes to them from their Lord.”

They call something “created” only when it is separate from its maker, as in His saying:

“And when you fashioned from clay the form of a bird.”

When they describe someone’s speech as “created” and “fabricated,” they mean that it is false and invented, as in His saying:

“And you fabricate falsehood.”