𝘿𝙝𝙖𝙝𝙖𝙗𝙞 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 ‘𝘼𝙡-...

𝘿𝙝𝙖𝙝𝙖𝙗𝙞 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 ‘𝘼𝙡-𝘼𝙧𝙨𝙝’ 𝙖𝙣𝙙 ‘𝘼𝙡-𝙐𝙡𝙪𝙬’ (𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙛𝙖𝙩/𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙝):

The salafi scholar Abd Allah Ibn Salih al-Barrak in his edition of Dhahabi’s ‘Al-Uluw’ mentions:

“In the handwriting of the copyist Ibn Nasir al-Din is the following text:

The author (Dhahabi), may Allah have mercy on him, said—according to what I found in his own handwriting in the margin of al-Musawwada:

‘It was completed in the year 698 AH. However, it contains hadiths whose weakness later became clear to me, and statements by various groups who had expanded in expression. I do not agree with them on those expressions, nor do I imitate them. May Allah forgive them.
Nor do I commit to anything except what the common people have unanimously agreed upon, and that is my religion. And I know that there is nothing like unto Allah, exalted is He.’"

[Dhahabi’s ‘Al-Uluw’ p.148-149 Abd Allah Ibn Salih al-Barrak first edition, 1420 AH, published by Dar al-Watan in Riyadh Edition]

Al-Barrak mentions:

“It was copied by the Hafiz Muhammad Ibn Abi Bakr, known as Ibn Nasir al-Din al-Dimashqi, born in the year 777 AH and died in the year 842 AH.
He said at the end of it: ‘The book is complete, and to Allah belongs all praise — abundant and pure praise. It was written hastily for a specific purpose that was fulfilled. And all of its handwriting is like this handwriting, from the hand of its author. [And the date of its transcription is the year 807 AH].’”

So it’s a book that was written by Dhahabi when he was 25/26 years old and under the influence of Ibn Taymiyya.
In one of his last books ‘Siyar A'lam al-Nubala’ Dhahabi also clearly abandons some of his old positions such as narrations on the hadd/limit of Allah, etc.