The book , also known as , by Muwaffaq al-Dīn b. ʿUṯmān al-Šāriʿī is the oldest treatise of (devotional visit to tombs and mausolea) to Cairo and Egypt that has reached us.The main difficulty linked to the transmission of this text is that most manuscripts contain many additions, which were probably added from the seventh till the tenth century AH. Indeed, Ibn ʿUṯmān handed his text over to his family, most of whom were organizing , and they took the initiative to add that were not in Ibn ʿUṯmān’s text.This present edition only contains the original text, after the editor systematically rejected the manuscripts that fell into the hands of from Ibn ʿUṯmān’s family who were leading , which makes it a proper scientific edition.
