What is meant by the storytellers whom the Salaf (the earliest generations) criticized?

Question:
What is meant by the storytellers whom the Salaf (the earliest generations) criticized?

Answer:
The preachers are meant by the term "preachers" because preachers generally do not avoid weak and fabricated hadiths. They prefer to affect people through their stories to have an impact, without looking at the chain of narration or the authenticity of the hadith. Therefore, the Salaf (the earliest generations) warned against them. Also, they generally cause people to despair. They cause people to despair and answer them with texts of warning, causing them to despair of Allah's mercy. Therefore, the Salaf (the earliest generations) warned against them. First, because they do not avoid weak evidence and do not build upon sound evidence. Second, because they generally cause people to despair of Allah's mercy. And perhaps they rule that things are forbidden (haram) when they are not forbidden, out of excessive strictness. Yes.