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Sulaymān is in every case written with yāʾ—the two-dotted letter—save for Salman al-Fārisī, Salman ibn ʿĀmir, al-Agharr, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Salmān, whose names omit it.
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Salamah is read with fatḥa on the lām, except for ʿAmr ibn Salamah, the prayer-leader of his clan, and the Banū Salamah among the Anṣār, for whom it takes kasrah; both vocalisations are reported for ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Salamah.
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Shaybān is everywhere written with the dotted consonant shīn. Under its entry one also encounters Sinān ibn Abī Sinān, Ibn Rabīʿah, Ibn Salamah, Aḥmad ibn Sinān, Abū Sinān Ḍirār ibn Murrah, and Umm Sinān—each of whose names is spelt with the undotted sīn followed by nūn.
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ʿUbaydah carries ḍamma, save for al-Salmānī, Ibn Sufyān, Ibn Ḥumayd, and ʿĀmir ibn ʿUbaydah, whose names are read with fatḥa.
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ʿUbayd is always pronounced with ḍamma.
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ʿUbādah likewise takes ḍamma, except for Muḥammad ibn ʿUbādah—one of al-Bukhārī’s shaykhs—who is read with fatḥa.
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ʿAbdah has the bāʾ quiescent throughout, apart from ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbda and Bijālah ibn ʿAbda, for whom both sukūn and fatḥa are attested.
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ʿAbbād is normally read with fatḥa and gemination; the sole exception is Qays ibn ʿUbād, who takes ḍamma without doubling.
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ʿAqīl is read with fatḥa, except for Ibn Khālid—who transmits from al-Zuhrī without a nisbah—Yaḥyā ibn ʿUqayl, and the Banū ʿUqayl, all of whom take ḍamma.
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Wāqid is invariably written with qāf.
The Nisbahs
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al-Aylī is everywhere spelt with fatḥa on the initial hamza and a quiescent yāʾ.
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al-Bazzāz is written with two zāʾs, save for Khalaf ibn Hishām al-Bazzār and al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ, where the final consonant is rāʾ.
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al-Baṣrī—the attribution to Basra—is written with bāʾ, whether opened or broken, except for Mālik ibn Aws ibn al-Ḥadathān al-Naṣrī, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Naṣrī, and Sālim, the client of the Naṣrīs, whose nisbah begins with nūn.
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al-Thawrī is always recorded with the three-dotted thāʾ, apart from Abū Yaʿlā Muḥammad ibn al-Tawwazī, whose nisbah uses tāʾ, a doubled wāw vocalised with fatḥa, and zāy.
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al-Jurayrī appears throughout with ḍamma on the jīm and fatḥa on the rāʾ, save for their teacher Yaḥyā ibn Bishr, whose nisbah opens with an un-dotted ḥāʾ.
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al-Ḥārithī is written with ḥāʾ and thāʾ; within the same group occurs Saʿd al-Jārī, whose nisbah begins with jīm.
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al-Ḥizāmī shows no variation in its spelling.