A person once deliberately attributed a false report to the Prophet ﷺ and later repented. Which distinction is correct?

The Necessity and Boundaries of Narrator Criticism

• Repentance renders the earlier fabricated report authentic
• All later transmissions must be accepted without scrutiny
• Repentance is relevant only to people who never make mistakes
• The prior fabrication remains false; scholars differed about accepting future reports, which require fresh scrutiny