Azad's Aab-e-Hayat is the first recorded history of Urdu poetry. Besides being a significant literary document, the book is also an interpretation of literary history. There are recounts, which do not measure up to the yardstick of truth. Azad has just not replicated the material extracted from secondary sources: the blend of creative imagination with authentic materials has rendered a literary composition which cannot be classified as authentic (literary) history. Hence, this paper attempts to show how Azad ignores facts and mixes primary and secondary sources while narrating the first recount of Urdu poetry in Nakat-e-Shoraa.