Besides his dīwān, Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs wrote at least one poem in strophic form (i.e. muwaššaḥ) about alchemy. This poem is preserved in several manuscripts. It is sometimes handed down together with the poetry collection Šuḏūr aḏ-ḏahab, sometimes with other alchemical works. At least one reader doubted the authorship of Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs'. In a manuscript kept in the Gotha Research Library, a reader notes that the style of the poem does not correspond to that of Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs and that the later commentator on Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs' works, al-Jildakī, does not mention this poem. The incongruity of style and al-Jildakī's ignorance about Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs' muwaššaḥ poem could be due to the fact that this form of poetry was regarded as "low" rather than "high" literature. However, Al-Jildakī reports that Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs wrote muwaššaḥ poetry because he quotes a muḫammas poem which he attributes to the ṣāḥib aš-Šuḏūr (i.e. "the author of The Gold Shards") in his Miṣbāh. It is therefore at least possible that Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs can be considered the author of the muwaššaḥ poem. With the composition of muwaššaḥ-poetry, Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs perhaps continued a family tradition, if he was indeed a descendant of the Toledan court poet Muḥammad b. Arfaʿ Raʾs(a). A study on the muwaššaḥ ṣanʿawī  has been published in 2021, in: Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques, 75/2, Special Issue: Alchemy in the Islamicate World, 2021, 637–664, . https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2020-0009 .