Exaggerator's Traces in Interpretive Narrations

Undoubtedly، one of the dangerous blights which has afflicted the narrative interpretations and the interpretive narrations are the exaggerative ideas and beliefs of the narrators which have sometimes led to hadith fabrication or semantic forgery and incorrect ta’vil of the Quranic verses. Developing cognizance of this phenomenon especially in the field of interpretive narrations involves some problems: the precise meaning of exaggeration and its bordering line with the real virtues of the infallible leaders of the religion (a. s.)، the required criteria for the recognition of exaggerators and their exaggerative beliefs as well as the exaggerating narrators or narrators accused of exaggeration are not that much clear. Some of the questions dealt with in this article are: What kind of role and influence have the exaggerators had in fabrication of interpretive narrations and/or false ta’vils? What is the number of the narrators accused of exaggeration and the exaggerated narrations?