Editing Al-Lohoof ala Ghatli al-Tofoof (section)

== The value and significance of the book ==
Regarding the importance and significance of al-Lohoof, Ibn Tawoos writes at the end of the book that anybody who learns about its order and name can tell its superiority over the other books in its category; although it is brief.<ref>[http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/search/briefListSearch.do?command=FULL_VIEW&id=611663&pageStatus=1&sortKeyValue1=sortkey_title&sortKeyValue2=sortkey_author Ibn Tawoos, al-Lohoof ala Ghatli, page 211]</ref> 

It is also possible that Ibn Tawoos prepared al-Lohoof using other Maqtals and books written about the battle of Karbala up to the sixth Hijri century; this is highly probable because Ibn Tawoos had the library of Sheykh Tousi, and according to some researchers, Sheykh Tousi has a book entitled Maqtal al-Husayn which is lost.<ref>[http://ensani.ir/fa/article/352238/%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AC%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A8-%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85 Sayyid Muhammad Kadhim Tabatabaee, Sayyid Hamid Musavi, Etebar Sanji Kotob Maqatel Imam Husayn (validation of Maqatel Imam Husayn) page 6]</ref>

Ghazi Tabatabaee knows Ibn Tawoos’s narrations in al-Lohoof highly reliable and even believes that no book among the Maqtals equals with it in terms of reliability and validity, and the book is among the first reliable Maqtals.<ref>[http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/search/briefListSearch.do?command=FULL_VIEW&id=513654&pageStatus=1&sortKeyValue1=sortkey_title&sortKeyValue2=sortkey_author Gahzi Tabatabaee, Sayyid Muhammad Ali, Tahghigh Darbareh Aval Arbaeen Hazrat Sayyid al-Shuhada (a research on Hadrat Sayyid al-Shuhada's first Arbaeen), page 7]</ref> 

Ali Davani, on the other hand, believes that the book's content has been changed through time, and unpleasant and unreliable information has entered it which are not by the author. Moreover, Davani mentioned another possibility as well. Ibn Tawoos did not have enough expertise while writing the book since he wrote it in his early adulthood, and his competence in research, history, and hadith then was not like that in his later years of life; as a result,,, al-Lohoof is like its initial format.<ref>[http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/search/briefListSearch.do?command=FULL_VIEW&id=316450&pageStatus=1&sortKeyValue1=sortkey_title&sortKeyValue2=sortkey_author Ali Davani, Naghd VA Barresi Maqatel Mojoud (Criticizing and studying the existing Maqatel) page 11]</ref>

Some other researchers have categorized al-Lohoof in the story, literary and Rawzeh group; they believe the book has a general, effective and energetic text<ref>[http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/search/briefListSearch.do?command=FULL_VIEW&id=221271&pageStatus=1&sortKeyValue1=sortkey_title&sortKeyValue2=sortkey_author Rasool Ja’farian, about the resources of Ashura History, page 22]</ref> which is a historical story-like narration of the battle of Karbala and Imam Husayn’s martyrdom.<ref>[https://www.magiran.com/paper/2291898 Narges Ansari and Zahra Salimi, Maqtal Negari Arabi va Farsi (Writing Maqtals in Arabic and Persian) page 4]</ref>