[1] The Akhbār al-dawla al-saljūqiyya consists of forty-one chapters, dealing with the history of the Seljuqs and their attendants, from the dynasty's origins in 10th-century Central Asia up to the death of Toghrul III, the last Sultan of the Seljuk Empire.
Although for the period of 1092 to 1152 it mainly relies on Imad al-Din al-Isfahani's Nusrat al-fatra, which was originally written in 1183 and later abridged in 1226/7 by al-Bundari (died after 1241/2), the quality coverage of documentation for other phases make it an important source on the history of the Seljuks.
The Akhbār al-dawla al-saljūqiyya relies on the non-extant Malik-nama for the period spanning from the origins of the Seljuqs until their victory over the Ghaznavids at the Battle of Dandanaqan in 1040.
Although the work includes proverbes and verses, they appear at a much lower frequency than in the chronicles written by contemporary Iranian writers such as those of Imad al-Din al-Isfahani and Muhammad ibn Ali Rawandi.
Durand-Guédy explains that other proposals are considered less convincing: the theory of Charles Pierre Henri Rieu (died 1902), later also adopted by Angelika Hartmann, held that the original work (i.e. the Zubdat al-tawārīkh) was written in Baghdad; whereas Qibla Ayaz is of the opinion that Sadr al-Din Husayni is the same person as Sayyid Sadr al-Din Nishapuri (as mentioned by Muhammad Aufi), who had been a civil servant in Nishapur for the Khwarazmians and the author of a non-extant history of the Khwarazmian ruler Muhammad II of Khwarazm (r. 1200-1220).