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You're misunderstanding Sahih now. The implication of Sahih is that it has a reliable chain of transmitters. It does not, in a manner, mean that the matn or the text itself holds legitimacy for Imam Bukhari and his contemporaries did not focus on the truth of the text. For example, there is a Sahih Hadith which states that women are bad luck as collected in Bukhari yet Aisha's narration, as collected in Imam Zarkashi's collection, refutes this. It was a misquotation by Abu Hurayrah. If you read Bidayat Al-Mujtahid by Ibn Rushd, a compilation of Hadith applications in Fiqh, there was debate around the legitimacy of Saheeh Hadith in itself and many prominent scholars such as Al-Tabari and Abu Thawr rejected various Saheeh narrations and accepted da'if narrations. As Muhammad Asad shows, Ibn Kathir, Al-Razi and Abu Ali possibly rejected this narration for they all took this verse metaphorically. Ibn Kathir especially heavily referenced Hadith in his Tafseer to justify his readings.

As for why one would fabricate it, the source states it is a misquotation. The Hadith in question, according to the source, has various wordings and this specific wording comes through Al Hakam, which also happens to be faulty.

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