ḥaqāiq asrār al-dīn as an archaic text from nusayri inheritance: its author and date

nuṣayrī-‘alawī is a shiite sect that the extremist-esoteric approach among them is highly visible. due to the mysterious nature of such these esoteric movements, a little work of nuṣayrī heritage is available to the public. a collection entitled silsilat al-turāth al-‘alawī has published in recent years which includes an abundant works of  nuṣayrī heritage. ḥaqāiq asrār al-dīn is one of them that among the followers of the sect have been attributed to abu muhammad hassan b. ali b. shuba al-harrani, who is known in imami tradition by writing the tuhaf al-ughul. the importance of this book is that it contains many quotations from the works of extremists (ghulat), especially the second and third centuries of kufan (iraq), such as mufażżal b. ‘umar al-ju‘fī and muĥammad b. sinān that the content of some of these texts today is in hand only through this book. this paper attempts, by examining evidence at the first, to determine the time that ḥaqāiq belongs to and in the next step to identify its author. according to textual criticism, the historical authenticity of the text, dating in part in the fourth century and assign it to ibn shuba could be suggested.