Ibn Sufi traveled to many lands and cities to gain experience and knowledge in sciences specially in genealogy, such as Ramla, Nusaybin, Levant, Mayafarfin, Egypt, Oman, Kufa, and Ukbara.

[30][31] The book "Al-Majdi fi Ansab al-Talibiyyin" includes the genealogy of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and his family, especially the twelve Shiite Imams.

[32][3] This book contains the genealogy of the Alawites and Talebites who migrated to lands outside the Hijaz and Iraq, some of whom gained fame and status.

[33] The last section of the book is about the genealogy of the descendants of Aqil ibn Abi Talib (an elder brother of Ali).

This section mentions that Aqil ibn Abi Talib's nickname is "Abu Yazid" and that he had 18 sons.

[34] The book "Al-Majdi fi Ansab al-Talibiyyin" enjoyed considerable fame and prestige during the lifetime of its author and was popular in the East and West of the Islamic world.

Ibn Sufi traveled to Egypt in 1051 AD/CE (443 AH), where he presented some of his works to "Majd al-Dawlah Abul-Hassan Ahmad" (president of the House of Wisdom of the time), during the Fatimid Empire.

[36] "Abu Talib Muhammad", the son of "Majd al-Dawlah Abul-Hassan Ahmad", asked Ibn Sufi to write a brief book on genealogy.

"Talibis Peoples" was a family tree in an Arab clan within the Quraysh tribe to which the Islamic prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah belonged.

[42][43] The book "Al-Majdi fi Ansab al-Talibiyyin" has many citations from reliable and trustworthy persons and matters in the field of genealogy.

So, the book "Al-Majdi fi Ansab al-Talibiyyin" was famous in Islamic world among genealogists because of its reliable narrations and it's trustworthy author.

The surviving manuscripts which remains in the world include:[46] In 1989 AD/CE (1409 AH),[48] all the available original Arabic manuscripts of the book "Al-Majdi fi Ansab al-Talibiyyin" were collected and revived in the city of Qom (the headquarters city of the Islamic scholars in Iran), and a modern-style academic version was republished with an introduction, commentaries, footnotes, and an afterword which is written by various experts.

[54] The researches and guiding commentaries was done by Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani (an Iranian scholar and university professor), and most of the useful footnotes were mentioned by him.