namely, in Ibn Mandah’s collection: “Sandar, Abū (1) al-Aswad.” He even cites a ḥadīth on his authority, yet that attribution has been disputed (2), for this Sandar is precisely the one Ibn Mandah himself had already mentioned (3).
The same ḥadīth is recorded by Muḥammad ibn al-Rabīʿ al-Jīzī in his “History of the Companions Who Settled in Egypt,” under the entry for Sandar, the freedman of Zinbāʿ. I have dealt with the matter in detail in my own book on the Companions (4).
[Knowledge of Honorifics and Nisbas]
Likewise, one must be acquainted with the standalone kunyas (teknonyms) (5) and laqabs (honorific epithets). At times the laqab is phrased like a personal name (6), at other times like a kunya (7); it may also function as a nisba (8) derived from a physical condition (9) or a craft (10).
Similarly (11), nisbas—genealogical attributions—are sometimes connected to tribes (12)