 That a text exists in different versions is not an isolated case. Two versions of Epistles 32 have been found by Walker (Walker et al. 2015, 5, 7–8). Similarly, there are two versions of Epistle 48; one is based on a group of MSS that appear to have been copied from an Ismâ‘îli specimen; the other is based on a second group of MSS, including Atif Efendi 1618. Despite the permanence of Shî‘ite elements, Hamdani believes that the material in the second version has been rearranged in order to provide a version acceptable to Sunni-Sufi readers. Although one must believe to the story handed down by al-Tawhîdî, there must have been an earlier shî‘i version of the Rasâ’il (Alshaar in Madelung et al. 2019, 383).