[2] He is best known for his work Bughyat al-Talab fī Tārīkh Ḥalab (بغية الطلب في تاريخ حلب; Everything Desirable about the History of Aleppo), a multi-volume collection of biographies of famous men from Aleppo, introduced with a volume on the geography and traditions of the region.
It is saved in part in manuscripts in the library of sultan Ahmed III in Topkapi Palace.
He also published a chronicle version of the work, Zubdat al-Halab fi ta'arikh Halab (زبدة الحلب في تأريخ حلب; The Cream of the History of Aleppo), a copy of which reached the library of Jean-Baptiste Colbert and then the Bibliothèque nationale de France,[3] and selections of which were published with Latin translation by Georg Freytag in 1819.
Another work is a guide for the making of perfumes, Kitab al-Wuslat (or Wasilat) ila al-Habib fi Wasf al-Tayibat wal-tibb (الوصلة إلى الحبيب في وصف الطيّبات والطيب) (Houtsma 1927).
He is an important source of knowledge on the Syrian Assassins, first analyzed by Silvester de Sacy (Lewis 1952).