Narratives about Harut and Marut sometimes add elaborate episodes of desire, wine, killing, and worldly punishment. Scholars have challenged the reliability of these additions; many researchers treat them as weak or derived from extra-Qur'anic storytelling traditions.
Popularity does not make a narrative binding proof in creed. A detail with uncertain transmission or in conflict with a clear, stronger text cannot be asserted as a verified event.
The central theological question is whether these reports are sufficiently reliable to qualify the general Qur'anic account of angelic obedience. Narrative vividness is no substitute for evidence.