What they said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
On the hadith «Do not lie about me», answering the Karramiyya who allowed forged hadith for exhortation:
“No account is taken of the Karramiyya who disagreed, allowing forged reports to encourage and warn in support of what is in the Qur'an and Sunna, and arguing that it is a lie «for him», not «against him» — which is ignorance of the Arabic language.”
Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani
d. 852 AH / 1449 CE
Egyptian hadith master, author of «Fath al-Bari», the commentary on al-Bukhari.
The Arabic original
وَلَا يُعْتَدُّ بِمَنْ خَالَفَ ذَلِكَ مِنَ الْكَرَامِيَّةِ، حَيْثُ جَوَّزُوا وَضْعَ الْكَذِبِ فِي التَّرْغِيبِ وَالتَّرْهِيبِ فِي تَثْبِيتِ مَا وَرَدَ فِي الْقُرْآنِ وَالسُّنَّةِ، وَاحْتَجّ بِأَنَّهُ كَذِبَ لَهُ لَا عَلَيْهِ، وَهُوَ جَهْلٌ بِاللُّغَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ.
Source
Ibn Hajar, Fath al-Bari, Salafiyya ed., Cairo, vol. 1, p. 200 (on hadith no. 106, «Do not lie about me»)
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
To lie «‘ala» the Prophet is to attribute to him what he did not say, whatever the motive; reading the preposition otherwise is the mistake he names.
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