Every researcher can find a list of what is mentioned regarding liars, throughwhich it is possible to gather fabricated and distorted traditions with which booksare teeming. But to identify most of them is not possible, what to say aboutidentifying all of them, because no registers exist about what the fabricators haverecorded, and whatever is found regarding small group from these numerouspeople is from lost history, which is mentioned coincidentally and withoutconscious intention.
After mention of the list of some of these narrators, Allamah says:“The least number of traditions fabricated by these people is mentioned as408684.”
It is clear to the researcher that this is the least figure, because fabricatorswere much more prolific and for most of them – if we don’t say of all of them –have writings containing extensive falsehoods, which exceed all limits andhistory has recorded only a few of them and that also in the biographies of someof the writers of these false books.
The evidence, which scholars of traditions have mentioned in theircollections is only a miniscule part of available traditions; for example in SaheehBukhari 2761 traditions are mentioned, without repetition, which he selectedfrom 600000 traditions.1
In Saheeh Muslim there are 6000 traditions, without repetition, selected from300000 traditions.2