ʿAbd Allah.
• Abū Murāyah—its second letter is the yāʾ (written with the two dots below); the mīm is pronounced with ḍammah and the rāʾ is not doubled. His personal name is ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr.
• Abū Muʿayyid, a diminutive form—this is Ḥafṣ ibn Ghaylān.

Section Three
Honorific Epithets (alqāb)
• Safīnah, the Prophet’s freedman (Allah bless him and grant him peace); his given name was Mihrān, though other opinions exist.
• Mandal—al-Khaṭīb and others vocalise the mīm with kasrah, while some give it fatḥah; his name is ʿAmr.
• Sahnūn—with either ḍammah or fatḥah on the sīn—his name is ʿAbd al-Salām.
• Muṭīn, Mashkidānah, and others—Allah knows best.

Fiftieth Category
On Personal Names and Kunyas
Monographs have been compiled on this topic by Ibn al-Madīnī, then Muslim, then al-Nasāʾī, then al-Ḥākim Abū Aḥmad, then Ibn Mandah, and others besides. Its aim is to identify the given names of those primarily known by their kunyas, and the author usually arranges the material alphabetically by kunya. It is further subdivided.

Section One – Those whose very given name is a kunya and who have no other personal name
They fall into two sub-types. The first includes people whose personal name is itself a kunya yet who possess an additional kunya. One example is Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, one of the Seven Jurists of Medina: his given name is Abū Bakr, while his kunya is Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Another is Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm, whose kunya is Abū Muḥammad. Al-Khaṭīb stated that these two have no parallels, and it is also said that Ibn Ḥazm himself had no kunya.