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The work is listed by Ibn al-Nadīm, Fihrist, p. 129. The 13th-century Shīʿī scholar Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Mūsā ibn Ṭāwūs (d. 1266) mentions in his al-Ṭarāʾif fī maʿrifat madhāhib al-ṭawāʾif, Qom, [1400] 1979, p. 424, what must be the same work with the title Kitāb aʿlām al-rasūl, and says that in a library in Baghdad he had examined a copy …