According to a report, Ata ibn Abi Rabah, the jurisconsult of Mecca in the early second century (d. 114), knew this text and had no doubt that it was actually Ali's compilation.
Al-Baqir reports that just before leaving for the battle of Karbala, al-Husayn gave his oldest daughter Fatima a " rolled up book " ((kitāb malfūf or mudarraj)).
This is the same as how a scroll known as al-Jami'a was described in some other reports; both were claimed to contain information that people require regarding lawfulness and unlawfulness, inheritance rules, and even monetary compensation for physical injuries.
Another manuscript known as the al-Jafr is periodically brought up in connection with the specific description that suggests the text contained everything individuals needed, even money to compensate for bruising.
All of them were supposedly a part of the House of the Prophet's written legacy, which many early Shias believed had been carried down via the line of the Imams and had given them the unique knowledge that set them apart from the rest of the community, including the erudite.