وَهُوَ الْأَثَرُ الْمَشْهُورُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ حَدَّثَ عَنِّي بِحَدِيثٍ يُرَى أَنَّهُ كَذِبٌ، فَهُوَ أَحَدُ الْكَاذِبِينَ»
Translation: This is the well-known report from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: whoever transmits a report on my authority that he knows, or has strong grounds to believe, is false is one of the liars.
“Whoever transmits from me” includes a later relayer, not only the original fabricator. This rendering makes explicit the interpretive range of “yurā annahu kadhib”: knowledge or a well-grounded conviction of false attribution, not a passing doubt. Mere weakness or uncertainty does not automatically establish deliberate fabrication. The governing point is responsibility for a false Prophetic attribution.