What is your opinion on narrating stories and jokes in gatherings for the purpose of entertainment?

The questioner : The questioner says: “Your Eminence, what is your opinion regarding what happens in people’s private and public gatherings, where jokes and stories are narrated with the intention of entertaining, knowing that these narrations are usually not realistic and not true? Their argument for this is that the listener of these narrations knows that they are not true?”

The Shaykh : The narrations and fictional stories that are woven from imagination and have no basis fall under the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) repeated it three times, and this indicates that it is forbidden. So whoever brings fictional stories that are forbidden, meaning they did not actually happen, in order to make people laugh with them, he is sinful and threatened with this threat, may Allah protect us from it, .