Qur’anic foundation: verify compromised reports; legal testimony requires integrity.
Critical distinction: reports and testimony share an integrity requirement, but differ in detailed rules such as number and eligibility.
Prophetic warning: knowingly relaying a false attribution as Prophetic can implicate the relayer in the lie.
Therefore moral integrity, transmission provenance and the soundness of attribution each require appropriate investigation. The next chapter develops the grave warning against lying about the Prophet ﷺ through further narrations.