The writing of the "Kitāb al-Futūḥ" was interrupted in ( 819) as a result of the Abbasid Civil War. At that time Ibn Aʿtham had brought his narrative down to the Battle of Karbalāʾ ( 680) using several existing monographs. A Persian translation of this version was made by Ibn al-Mustawfī in ( 1199/1200). Ibn Aʿtham later returned to his work, however, and extended it down to the time of Hārūn al-Rashīd (786–809). Thereafter two Sunnī writers continued the "Kitāb" down to the reign of al-Muqtadir (908–932). The whole compilation including the continuations was considered a work of Ibn Aʿtham by the 13th-century biographer Yāqūt, who called it "Kitāb al-Taʾrīkh" ("Book of History"). Yāqūt ascribes two other now lost works to Ibn Aʿtham as well.