The manuscript gives exactly the same geometric demonstration as is found in Al-Jabr, and in one case the same example as found in Al-Jabr, and even goes beyond Al-Jabr by giving a geometric proof that if the discriminant is negative then the quadratic equation has no solution. The similarity between these two works has led some historians to conclude that algebra may have been well developed by the time of al-Khwarizmi and 'Abd al-Hamid.
The manuscript's content mirrors the geometric presentation found in Al-Jabr, and also replicates a similar example from Al-Jabr. Additionally, it takes this similarity further by providing a geometric justification for when a quadratic equation has no solution, based on a negative discriminant. This parallelism has led some historians to infer that algebra may have been well-established during the time of al-Khwarizmi and 'Abd al-Hamid.