وَحَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ، يَعْنِي ابْنَ عُلَيَّةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ صُهَيْبٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ: إِنَّهُ لَيَمْنَعُنِي أَنْ أُحَدِّثَكُمْ حَدِيثًا كَثِيرًا أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «مَنْ تَعَمَّدَ عَلَيَّ كَذِبًا فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ النَّارِ»
Translation: Zuhayr ibn Ḥarb narrated to me: Ismāʿīl (Ibn ʿUlayyah) narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ṣuhayb, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: “What prevents me from narrating many hadith to you is that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Whoever deliberately lies about me, let him take his seat in the Fire.”
The emphatic phrase “what restrains me” explains Anas’s caution, not a prohibition of extensive teaching. Frequent narration increases the opportunity for inadvertent misquotation. “Taʿammada” means deliberate intention: accidental misstatement is a distinct case, although correction remains obligatory.