Shaykh Ahmad-i Jam (traditionally said to have lived between 1049-1141) was an important Sufi based in Khurasan, whose fame and the popularity of his burial site allowed his hereditary descendants to become important local notables in the region up to the present day. As with many Sufis, Ahmad’s hagiographers have used miracle stories as one of several ways in which to legitimize Ahmad’s status as a saint and to bring him the fame from which his family and shrine thrived. My presentation looks at how and why A?had’s earliest hagiographer, a disciple of his named Muhammad-i Ghaznavi, came to ascribe fantastic deeds to his spiritual master, a man he personally knew. Examining a number of under-utilized sources, notably the earliest sources devoted to Ahmad and his own writings on the topic of miracles, as well as building new ideas off the latest theory on biographic and hagiographic literature, I argue that in many cases, miracle stories were not just meant to be didactic tales modeling proper piety, nor should they only be seen as fitting the subject into a paradigm of sainthood. Rather, I argue that hagiographies were often meant to be entertaining and even funny, a literary device crafted to appeal to a less educated audience and those most in need of repentance, which in turn served to ensnare potential disciples so as to build the following around the saint.