Among the other instances are: ʿAbd Allāh b. Yaḥyā—of whom there is a group bearing the same name—and ʿAbd Allāh b. Nujayy (1)—the nūn is read with ḍamma, the jīm with fatḥa, and the yāʾ is doubled; he is a well-known Successor (2) who narrates from ʿAlī.

Alternatively, the written form and the pronunciation may be identical (3), yet confusion arises through the inversion of elements—either (4) in both names as a whole (or something of that sort (5)), or by rearranging some of the letters within one of the two names so that it resembles the other (6).

Example (7) of the first case: al-Aswad b. Yazīd and Yazīd b. al-Aswad—an obvious illustration. Another example is ʿAbd Allāh (8) b. Yazīd and Yazīd (9) b. ʿAbd Allāh.

Example of the second case: Ayyūb b. Sayyār and Ayyūb b. Yasār; the former is a well-known Medinan narrator who is not strong, whereas the latter is unknown (10).