It concludes with "The Book of Jihad was completed by the grace of God and His assistance, and with its completion, all commentaries are finished.

Except for the Book of Jihad, which was completed by the Imām, the Infallible, the Guided, the Known, may God be pleased with him.

Its conclusion states: 'All writings are completed by the grace of God and His assistance,' and with its completion, the Book of Jihad, which was completed by the Caliph [two words missing] may God be pleased with him, is finished." This indicates that a portion of it belongs to one of the first three Caliphs of the Almohad state. What further strengthens this attribution is that one of the two existing copies was transcribed only fifty-five years after the death of the Mahdi, i.e., in the year 579 AH.

If this collection is correctly attributed to Ibn Tumart, then not all of it is his direct composition and wording. Rather, it is narrated and dictated by his disciple, Abd al-Mu'min ibn Ali. This is what is conveyed by the statement of its transcriber or compiler: "This book contains all the commentaries of the Imām, the Infallible, the Mahdi, the Known, may God be pleased with him, as dictated by our master, the Imām, the Caliph, Commander of the Faithful, Abu Muhammad Abd al-Mu'min ibn Ali."

This is also what Ibn al-Qattan alluded to in his statement: "Abd al-Mu'min dictated the sciences of the Mahdi." From the difference in style between one book and another in the collection, we can infer that Abd al-Mu'min dictated some of these writings from their original texts written by Ibn Tumart, while he dictated others from memory and the memory of the Mahdi's followers and disciples.

The known manuscripts of this collection to date are two: The first: Manuscript of the National Library of Paris, number 1451. It is dated Sha'ban, year 579 AH. The second: Manuscript of the General Library of Rabat, number Q 6010.

Majmu' A'azz ma Yutlab: (56) Majmu' A'azz ma Yutlab: (57) Rabat manuscript: folio 160. See: Ammar al-Talibi, Two Almohad Treatises. End of Majmu' A'azz ma Yutlab: (unnumbered page). (58) Ibn al-Qattan, Nazm al-Juman: 133. (59) It was edited by the Orientalist Luciani and published in Algiers in 1903, with a comprehensive introduction by the Orientalist Goldziher. (60) Dr. Ammar al-Talibi mentioned that he is in the process of verifying it. See his article: Two Almohad Treatises. (67) 8