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Here the number one thousand does not mean one thousand but it means to come or say many times. This word will not be used at that time when somebody have come only once or said only once and if somebody came only once and said that I have come one thousand times, then he is a liar.
(Rad-dul-Muhtar, vol. 9, pp. 705)
1. Sometimes while talking about illness such hyperbole is used which is not normally used for describing such an illness. For example, to talk about someone who is slightly ill: ‘He is seriously ill’ is a lie.
If someone has not attended the Ijtima’ due to any other reason, and by chance he was also slightly ill, but despite not being absent due to illness saying: ‘I was severely ill, that’s why I could not attend.’ This sentence contains two sinful lies! (a) A minor illness was mentioned as a severe illness (b) mentioned illness as the reason of absence, though the reason was something different.
Similarly if someone suffers from a mild fever and says: ‘I had so high fever that I could not sleep the whole night’.
If someone is asked to do something, then despite being a little tired just to get rid of that task he says: ‘I am very tired, ask someone else to do this work’. However if only it is said: ‘I am tired’ is not a lie. OR
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