Šuḏūr aḏ-ḏahab is a collection of more than forty poems consisting of a total of around 1400 verses. The poems are arranged according to their rhyme letters. For each letter of the Arabic alphabet, the poet has composed at least one poem. The dīwān Šuḏūr aḏ-ḏahab is highly praised in the bio-bibliographic literature. More than twenty commentaries on this collection of poems have been handed down in manuscripts, all of them unpublished to this day. In addition, there is a taḫmīs-version. The work also served as a template for a Turkish collection of alchemical poems.
As for the Arabic alchemical poems, they are preserved in at least one hundred manuscripts dating from between the second/eighth and eighth/fourteenth centuries. While most of the more recent manuscripts were copied in the Islamic West, none of the extant older manuscripts have been written in the typical Maġribī script. This might imply that the text was read - at least in an earlier period - especially in the Islamic East.