The second sub-type consists of those whose given name is itself a kunya and who have no other kunya, such as Abū Bilāl, cited by Shurayk, and Abū Ḥuṣayn—pronounce the ḥāʾ with fatḥah—according to Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī.

Section Two – Those who are known by their kunya while it is not even known whether they possessed a separate personal name
Included here are Abū Unās—with a final nūn—a Companion; Abū Muwayhibah, the freedman of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace); Abū Shaybah al-Khudrī; Abū al-Abyad, who narrates from Anas; Abū Bakr ibn Nāfiʿ, the client of Ibn ʿUmar; Abū al-Najīb, with an initial nūn—some say Abū al-Tujīb, with a ḍammah on the tāʾ; and Abū Ḥarīz, with ḥāʾ and zāy, al-Mawqifī—al-Mawqif being a district in Egypt.

Section Three – Those who acquired a kunya as a nickname yet already had both a personal name and another kunya
Examples are Abū Turāb, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, whose kunya is Abū al-Ḥasan; Abū al-Zinād, ʿAbd Allah ibn Dhakwān, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Abū al-Rijāl, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Abū Tumaylah, Yaḥyā ibn Wāḍiḥ, Abū Muḥammad; Abū al-Ādhān, the ḥāfiẓ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū Bakr; Abū al-Shaykh, the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad, Abū Muḥammad; and Abū Ḥāzim al-ʿAbdawī, ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad, Abū Ḥafṣ.

Section Four – Those who possessed two kunyas or more
Among them are Ibn Jurayj, whose kunyas were Abū al-Walīd and Abū Khālid; as well as Manṣūr al-Firāwī, who was variously called Abū Bakr, Abū al-Fatḥ and Abū al-Qāsim.

Section Five – Those concerning whom the reports differ as to their kunya
A case in point is Usāmah ibn Zayd: some say his kunya was Abū Zayd, others Abū Muḥammad, still others Abū ʿAbd Allah, and yet others Abū Khārijah. Countless figures fall into this category, and some of them resemble those in the preceding section by being cited with more than one kunya.

Section Six – Those whose kunya is agreed upon while their personal name is disputed
These include Abū Buṣrah al-Ghifārī—most hold that his name was Ḥumayl, with a ḍammah on the ḥāʾ, while others say Jumayl with a fatḥah on the jīm; Abū Juḥayfah, whose name is given as Wahb, though some say Wahb Allah; Abū Hurayrah, identified most reliably—out of some thirty opinions—as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr, and he was the first to bear that kunya; Abū Burdah ibn Abī Mūsā, whom the majority name ʿĀmir, whereas Ibn Maʿīn says al-Ḥārith; and Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, the Qurʾān-reciter, for whom about eleven different names are reported—one view considers the soundest to be Shuʿbah, while another maintains that his personal name coincides with his kunya.

Section Seven – Those whose kunya and personal name are both disputed
Such is Safīnah, the freedman of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace); it is said