Second: the existence of an abridgement of al-Ṣawāʿiq prepared by Imām Muḥammad al-Mawṣilī, who was the author’s own student. This summary is extremely useful and well known; it has been published several times. For the most part it preserves the original author’s phrasing, and we shall speak about it later. There is likewise an abridgement of al-Ṣawāʿiq compiled by Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb.

Third: scholars have quoted from al-Ṣawāʿiq. Regrettably, I have not found many such quotations; those I have located include Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb in Fatḥ al-Majīd (p. 56–57) and in Kashf Mā Alqāh Iblīs min al-Bahraj wa-l-Talbīs ʿalā Qalb Dāwūd b. Jirjis (p. 144–146, 149–152), and Shaykh Sulaymān b. Saḥmān in Iqāmat al-Ḥujjah wa-l-Dalīl wa Īḍāḥ al-Muḥajjah wa-l-Sabīl (p. 48–49).

Fourth: a large number of scholars have attributed al-Ṣawāʿiq to Imām Ibn al-Qayyim. Among them are Shihāb al-Dīn Ibn Rajab in Maʿjam Shuyūkhihi—as reported in al-Muntaqā min Maʿjam Shuyūkh Ibn Rajab (p. 101); his son Zayn al-Dīn Ibn Rajab in Dhayl Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila (5/175); Ibn Ḥajar in al-Durr al-Kāmina (3/402); al-ʿAlīmī in al-Durr al-Munḍad (2/522) and in al-Minhaj al-Aḥmad (5/94); al-Dāwūdī in Ṭabaqāt al-Mufassirīn (2/96); Ḥājjī Khalīfa in Sullam al-Wuṣūl (3/62) and in Kashf al-Ẓunūn (2/1083); Ibn al-ʿImād in Shadharāt al-Dhahab (8/290); al-Shawkānī in al-Badr al-Ṭāliʿ (2/144); and Ibn