1. A didactic poem on Arab genealogies entitled Khāliṣ al-Jumān fī Dhikr Ansāb Banī ʿAdnān (Pure Pearls Concerning the Lineages of the Descendants of ʿAdnān). He composed it before reaching puberty, then later buried the manuscript, explaining that he had written it with the intention of outshining his peers. Of it he said:
   “I named it Pure Pearls—
   Recounting the lineages of the sons of ʿAdnān.”

2. A rajaz-metre poem on the ancillary rulings of the Mālikī school, limited to contracts—sales and mortgages—and running to several thousand verses.

3. An Alfiyya (one-thousand-line poem) on logic.

4. A versification on the laws of inheritance.

Second category: works he wrote or dictated on his way to the ḥajj while travelling from his homeland:

1. A commentary on Sullam al-Akhdarī in logic.

2. Al-Riḥla ilā Bayt Allāh al-Ḥarām (The Journey to the Sacred House of Allah), published ten years after his death.

Third category: writings produced after he had settled in this land:

1. Manʿ Jawāz al-Majāz fī al-Munazzal li’l-Taʿabbud wa’l-Iʿjāz (Rejecting Metaphor in the Revelation Meant for Worship and Inimitability).

2. Dafʿ Īhām al-Idtirāb ʿan Āyāt al-Kitāb (Dispelling the Impression of Contradiction from the Verses of the Book), which the Shaykh—may Allah have mercy on him—completed in fifteen nights during the examination recess of 1373 AH.

3. A memorandum on uṣūl al-fiqh based on Rawḍat al-Nāẓir, which he dictated to his students in the newly established Faculty of Sharīʿah in Riyadh.