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This article includes an edition and translation, preliminary prepared by Mr. A. A. Hannawi (mentioned in the acknowledgement p. 188, but not among the authors), a final translation and presumably a final edition as well with some short introductory remarks by the present authors, of a very interesting geometrical work of the late tenth century mathematician by the name of Abu Sahl al-Kuhi. The purpose of the work ``is to draw two straight lines from a known point at a known angle to a line known in position so that the ratio of one of the two of them to the other, or a rectangle, or the magnitude of the resulting triangle, or its base, or their squares together, or the two of them together, or the difference between them is known.'' The Arabic edition is based on a unique manuscript, BN Arabe 2457 ff. 48-50, and the translation is straightforward, with diagrams supplied in the translation only but do not seem to have existed in the original Arabic.