Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam (attributed to Ibn Sirin)

The dream manual that circulates under the name of Muhammad Ibn Sirin, an eighth century figure who left no attested dream book of his own, is in fact a later compilation, ascribed to al-Dari and dated to around the fifteenth century, first printed at Bulaq in 1284 AH. Its value is documented rather than assumed: it is cited here as a widely circulated attributed tradition, the popular Arabic dream manual readers actually encounter under Ibn Sirin's name, not as his authentic work. Its limit follows directly from that pseudepigraphic status: a claim about what the historical Ibn Sirin himself taught about dream interpretation cannot rest on this text, and any claim from it should be attributed to the later tradition rather than to Ibn Sirin.