whether in stand-alone works or in contemporary studies, and it was cited by:
1 – Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Dimashqī (d. 842 AH) in al-Radd al-Wāfir, in several places (pp. 64, 109, 230).
2 – Shaykh Marʿī al-Karmī al-Ḥanbalī (d. 1033 AH), who produced an abridgment entitled al-Kawākib al-Durriyya fī Manāqib al-Mujtahid Ibn Taymiyya, as he states in his introduction (1).
3 – He likewise drew from it in his work al-Shahāda al-Zakiyya fī Thanāʾ al-Aʾimma ʿalā Ibn Taymiyya (pp. 52–53).
4 – The distinguished scholar Maḥmūd Shukrī al-Ālūsī (d. 1342 AH) also excerpted from it in his book Ghāyat al-Amānī fī al-Radd ʿalā al-Nabhānī (1/500).
5 – After its publication in 1356 AH, its usefulness widened considerably, so that it became the cornerstone for later biographical writings; scarcely any study on Ibn Taymiyya fails to quote from, or at least refer to, this book.

– Editions of the book –
The work has appeared in several editions:
1 – The Maktabat al-Sunnah al-Muḥammadiyya edition, edited by Muḥammad Ḥāmid al-Fiqī—may Allah have mercy on him—which was the book’s first printing in 1356 AH, and in it he relied