Flee to Allah identifies its author only as Abu Dharr al-Qalamuni, and offers no autobiographical detail beyond the book's own preface, where he describes the work as a charitable offering rather than a personal testimony, asking readers to overlook whatever shortcomings have shaped his prose and to remember him in supplication. The book itself, however, situates its author clearly within a specific line of transmission: a compiler working almost entirely from primary Arabic sources, restating and arranging their content for an English-reading audience rather than advancing an original argument of his own.

The three authorities on whom the book most heavily depends are, by contrast, well documented. Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (691?751 AH/1292?1350 CE), the Damascene jurist and student of Ibn Taymiyyah, is drawn on throughout ? his Zad al-Ma'ad supplying the material on prophetic medicine and the treatment of epilepsy and sorcery, and his Al-Wabil al-Sayyib providing the extended catalogue of the merits of dhikr that structures the book's sixth chapter. Ibn Kathir (701?774 AH/1301?1373 CE), the Damascene historian and exegete, supplies the Qur'anic commentary that anchors the book's opening argument on repentance. Imam al-Shawkani (1173?1250 AH/1759?1834 CE), the Yemeni jurist and hadith scholar, is cited chiefly through his Tuhfat al-Dhakirin, particularly on the Prophetic guidance concerning affliction attributed to jinn.

The English translation was produced by a team of El-Falah Staff Members under the direction of Dr. 'Abdel-Hamid A. Eliwa, working alongside Ali M. As-Sawi and Wa'il A. Shehab, with editorial oversight from Joanne McEwan and Jeewan Chanicka. The Arabic original was published by Dar Al-Manarah for Translation, Publishing and Distribution in El-Mansoura, Egypt, with the English edition following in 1419 AH/October 1998.

Beyond these details, drawn directly from the book's preliminary matter and its citations, no further biographical record of the author accompanies the work. The absence is consistent with the book's own stated purpose: a compiler's note explains that it is offered as a charitable service rather than a vehicle for its author's reputation, and the text accordingly keeps its compiler almost entirely out of view, foregrounding instead the Qur'anic verses, hadith, and classical commentary from which it is built.