(1) Copies F and K read “al-Asbahani yusamma” (the Isfahani is so called), and copy K omits the word “mujallad” (volume). Ibn Rashiq (p. 295) lists the work. It has been published several times, though roughly one-third is missing. Muhammad al-Saawi produced a complete critical edition for his doctoral dissertation, later issued by Dar al-Minhaj in a large single volume. (2) Cited by Ibn Rashiq (p. 295). Al-Razi’s al-Arbaʿin fi usul al-din (Forty Chapters on the Foundations of the Faith) is available in a substantial single-volume edition. Below (p. 87) the author devotes a section refuting al-Razi’s treatment of the discretionary attributes in al-Arbaʿin; that section is printed in Majmuʿ al-Fatawa 6:273–287. (3) The words “nafsaniyya wa fi ibtal” (psychical, and on refutation) are absent from copy F. (4) The work was first edited by Dr. Muhammad Rashad Salim in two volumes, then reissued by Maktabat Adwa al-Salaf in 1423 AH as a single volume that contains corrections and addenda to the earlier edition. (5) Cited by Ibn Rashiq (p. 295). Al-Muhassal is printed in one volume. Shaykh al-Islam notes that some people used to chant about it, as recorded in Minhaj al-Sunnah 5:433: “A Compendium on the fundamentals of faith—its essence: After mastering it one has knowledge bereft of religion. The root of misguidance and manifest falsehood it is; For most of what it contains is the inspiration of devils.”