– A study of the book Al-Furūsiyya al-Muḥammadiyya and an introduction to it.
It comprises the following:
1 – The book’s name and title.
2 – Proof of its attribution to the author.
3 – The date of its composition and the motive that impelled him to write it.
4 – Whether this work is an abridgment of one of his larger books.
5 – The benefit scholars have derived from it and their commendations of it.
6 – The sources the author drew upon in the book.
7 – Its subject matter and contents.
8 – The connection between Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad, the copyist of the book, and Al-Furūsiyya al-Muḥammadiyya.
9 – The printed editions of the work.
10 – A description of the manuscripts adopted for the critical edition.
11 – The methodology followed in establishing the text.
12 – Specimens from the two manuscript copies on which the edition is based.