| Nickname | Type | Meaning |
|---|
| al-`Āfiya | descriptive | the strong? |
| al-A`raj | descriptive | the lame |
| al-Abjar | descriptive | big-bellied |
| al-Aḥdab | descriptive | hunchback |
| al-Ash`ab | descriptive | broad in the shoulders |
| al-Azraq | descriptive | blue-eyed |
| al-Ḍarīr | descriptive | the blind |
| al-Gaffār | descriptive | the absolver |
| al-Gafūr | descriptive | “the discoverer” |
| al-Ganī | descriptive | “the self-sufficient” |
| al-Gazāl | descriptive | young gazelle |
| al-Ḥafīd | descriptive | grandson, offspring |
| al-Ḥafiẓ | descriptive | one who has memorized the Qu’ran |
| al-Jadd | descriptive | prosperous, fortunate, lucky |
| al-Jalāl | descriptive | the majestic |
| al-Jamīl | descriptive | beautiful, elegant |
| al-Jurz | descriptive | “la masa” for his great physical strength |
| al-Kafīf | descriptive | the blind |
| al-Marīḍ | descriptive | the sick person, the invalid |
| al-Mufassir | descriptive | the explainer, the exegete |
| al-Muḥibb | descriptive | the lover |
| al-Muntaṣir | descriptive | conquerer (may only be used by rulers) |
| al-Musaffir | descriptive | traveller |
| al-Mu'taḍid | descriptive | the supporter |
| al-Mutakallim | descriptive | the speaker |
| al-Naṣr | descriptive | the victorious |
| al-Rashīd | descriptive | the pious |
| al-Ruqay`a | descriptive | may be descriptive, “the slip of paper” |
| al-Ṣagīr | descriptive | the small |
| al-Ṣannā` | descriptive | skillful, artist |
| al-Ṣiddīq | descriptive | truthful (probably limited in use) |
| al-Ṣugayyir | descriptive | the very small |
| al-Shāhid | descriptive | the martyr |
| al-Ṭawīl | descriptive | tall |
| al-Ṭayyib | descriptive | good-natured |
| al-Thagrī | descriptive | frontiersman |
| al-Ummī | descriptive | derived from Umma, the Islamic community |
| al-Uṣūlī | descriptive | knowing the fundamentals of legal doctrine |
| al-Zāhid | descriptive | ascetic |
| al-Badawī | ethnic | the Bedouin |
| al-Rūmī | ethnic | the European |
| al-Turaykī | ethnic | the little Turk |
| al-Turkī | ethnic | the Turk |
| al-Turkumānī | ethnic | Turkoman |
| al-`Abbādī | family | descendant of `Abbād |
| al-`Abbāsī | family | descendant of `Abbās |
| al-`Abdūsī | family | descendant of `Abdūs |
| al-`Āmirī | family | descendant of `Āmir (a given name, not Āmir) |
| al-`Ammārī | family | descendant of `Ammār |
| al-`Aṣimī | family | descendant of `Aṣim |
| al-`Awfī | family | descendant of `Awf |
| al-`Ikrimī | family | descendant of a man named `Ikrima |
| al-`Īsī | family | descendant of a man named `Īsa |
| al-`Iyāḍī | family | descendant of `Iyāḍ |
| al-`Umarī | family | descendant of `Umar |
| al-`Uqaylī | family | descendant of `Uqayl |
| al-`Utbī | family | descendant of `Utba |
| al-`Uthmānī | family | descendant of `Uthmān |
| al-Abūdharī | family | descendant of Abū Dhar(r) |
| al-Aslamī | family | descendant of Aslam |
| al-Awzālī ī | family | descendant of Awzāl |
| al-Bakrī | family | descendant of Bakr |
| al-Bārūnī | family | descendant of Bārūn |
| al-Dāwūdī | family | descendant of Dāwūd |
| al-Farāwaṣnī | family | of the Farāwaṣan family |
| al-Fāzāzī | family | of the Fāzāz family |
| al-Fihrī | family | of the Fihr family |
| al-Ḥafṣī | family | descendant of Ḥafṣ |
| al-Ḥasanī | family | descendant of Ḥasan |
| al-Ḥimmānī | family | of the Ḥimmān family |
| al-Ḥujrī | family | descendant of Ḥujr |
| al-Ḥumaydī | family | descendant of Ḥumayd (diminutive of Ḥamad) |
| al-Ḥusaynī | family | descendant of Ḥusayn |
| al-Hamdānī | family | descendant of Hamdān |
| al-Hārūnī | family | descendant of Hārūn |
| al-Hāshimī | family | descendant of Hāshim |
| al-Hunaynī | family | descendant of Hunayn |
| al-Idrīsī | family | descendant of Idrīs |
| al-Ifrānī | family | of the Ifrān family |
| al-Iyādī | family | of the Iyād family |
| al-Izlītanī | family | descendant of Izlītan |
| al-Iznāsnī | family | of the Iznāsan family |
| al-Jādīrī | family | descendant of Jādīr |
| al-Jahḍamī | family | of the Jahḍam family |
| al-Jath`amī | family | of the Jath`am tribe |
| al-Jidrī | family | may be error for al-Jidrī (descendant of Jiḍr) |
| al-Kalbī | family | descendant of Kalb ibn Wabarah |
| al-Kilābī | family | descendant of Kilāb |
| al-Kilbī | family | variant of al-Kalbī |
| al-Kinānī | family | descendant of Kinānah (an ancestor of Muḥammad) |
| al-Labīdī | family | descendant of Labīd, a contemporary of Muḥammad |
| al-Madhḥijī | family | of the Madhḥij family |
| al-Majzūmī | family | descendant of the Majzūm family |
| al-Marwānī | family | descendant of Marwān |
| al-Muḥammadī | family | descendant of a man named Muḥammad |
| al-Muslimī | family | descendant of Muslim |
| al-Mustaẓhirī | family | descendant of al-Mustaẓhir |
| al-Na`mānī | family | descendat of Na`mān |
| al-Naḥrīrī | family | descendant of Naḥrīr |
| al-Najjārī | family | descendant of the carpenter |
| al-Namarī | family | descendant of the Namar family |
| al-Naṣrī | family | descendant of Naṣr |
| al-Numayrī | family | of the Numayr family |
| al-Nuwayrī | family | descendant of Nuwayra |
| al-Qaṣṣārī | family | descendant of the fuller |
| al-Qaynī | family | from the al-Qayn family |
| al-Qaysī | family | descendant of Qays |
| al-Rabī`ī | family | descendant of a man named al-Rabī` |
| al-Rāshidī | family | descendant of Rāshid |
| al-Ruwaynī | family | descendant of Ruwayn |
| al-Ṣadīqī | family | descendant of the truthful one |
| al-Ṣafrāwī | family | descendant of someone bynamed al-Ṣafrā’ (the yellow woman) |
| al-Ṣulṭānī | family | descendant of the sultan |
| al-Sa`dī | family | descendant of Sa`d |
| al-Sa`īdī | family | descendant of Sa`īd |
| al-Sabā´ī | family | descendant of Ibn al-Sabā’ (an early Shia) |
| al-Salmānī | family | descendant of Salmān |
| al-Shabībī | family | descendant of Sabīb |
| al-Sharīf | family | descendant of the prophet |
| al-Sinbāṭī | family | descendant of Sinbāṭ |
| al-Sufyānī | family | descended from Sufyān |
| al-Ṭarīfī | family | descendant of Ṭarīf |
| al-Tajībī | family | descendant of Tujīb or Tajīb |
| al-Tālūtī | family | descendant of Tālūt or Ṭālūt |
| al-Tamīmī | family | descendant of Tamīm |
| al-Tha`labī | family | of the Tha`lab family |
| al-Tujībī | family | descendant of Tujīb or Tajīb |
| al-Ubbī | family | descendant of Ubba |
| al-Umawī | family | descendant of Umayya |
| al-Usaydī | family | descendant of Usayd (diṃ of Asad) |
| al-Walīdī | family | descendant of Walīd |
| al-Wāṣilī | family | descendant or follower of Wāṣil |
| al-Wazīrī | family | descendant of Wazīr |
| al-Yaḥṣubī | family | from the Yaḥṣub family (Yemen) |
| al-Zayyātī | family | descendant of the maker of olive oil |
| al-Zubayrī | family | descendant of Zubayr |
| al-`Āmilī | locative | from Jabal `Āmil (Lebanon) |
| al-`Amrānī | locative | from `Amrān (Yemen) |
| al-`Annābī | locative | from `Annāba (Algeria) |
| al-`Arajī | locative | from al-`Arj (near Mecca) |
| al-`Arjī | locative | from al-`Arj (near Mecca) |
| al-`Asqalānī | locative | from Asquerosa |
| al-`Umānī | locative | from Oman |
| al-`Uqlīshī | locative | from Uclés |
| al-Abharī | locative | from Abhar, Persia |
| al-Ābilī | locative | from Avila |
| al-Abīwardī | locative | from Abīward, near Khorasan |
| al-Ablī | locative | from Abla |
| al-Abyārī | locative | from Abyār (many places, means “the wells”) |
| al-Aḥmaḍwal | locative | may be mistake for locative al-Aḥmaḍwalī |
| al-Ājimī | locative | from Ājim |
| al-Altā'ī | locative | from Altea |
| al-Āmidī | locative | from Āmid (Turkey or Iraq) |
| al-Andalusī | locative | from al-Andalus |
| al-Andūsharī | locative | from Andújar |
| al-Anṣamunī | locative | from Anṣamun |
| al-Anṭalīshī | locative | from Anṭalīsh |
| al-Antaqīrī | locative | from Antequera |
| al-Arḍīṭī | locative | from Ardite |
| al-Arjūnī | locative | from Arjona |
| al-Aṣīlī | locative | from Aṣīla |
| al-Aswānī | locative | from Aswan, Egypt |
| al-Awlabī | locative | from Huelva |
| al-Awrabī | locative | from Awraba |
| al-Bagdādī | locative | from Baghdad |
| al-Bājī | locative | from Beja |
| al-Balafīqī | locative | from Velefique |
| al-Balagī | locative | from Balaguer |
| al-Balansī | locative | from Valencia |
| al-Balawī | locative | from Balī (near Cordoba) |
| al-Baldī | locative | from Belda |
| al-Baljī | locative | from Balj (Afghanistan) |
| al-Ballashī | locative | from Velez |
| al-Barbushtarī | locative | from Barbastro |
| al-Barmakī | locative | from Barmak (an Indian placename) |
| al-Baṣrī | locative | from Basra |
| al-Bashtannī | locative | from Bashtann |
| al-Baṭalyawsī | locative | from Badajoz |
| al-Baṭṭiwī | locative | from Baṭṭiwa |
| al-Bawzūzī | locative | from Bawzūz |
| al-Bayḍāwī | locative | from Bayḍā (Persia) |
| al-Bayrānī | locative | from Bairén |
| al-Bayyānī | locative | from Baena |
| al-Bayyāsī | locative | from Baeza |
| al-Binnī | locative | from Binna |
| al-Bizilyānī | locative | from Bizmiliana |
| al-Bujārī | locative | from Bujāra (Uzbekistan) |
| al-Buntī | locative | from Alpuente |
| al-Būṣīrī | locative | from Būṣīr |
| al-Būshī | locative | from Būsh (Egypt) |
| al-Bushkalārī | locative | from Pezcolar |
| al-Butrī | locative | from al-Butr |
| al-Dalā'ī | locative | from Dalias |
| al-Damāminī | locative | from Damāmin (or al-Damāmīn) |
| al-Damīrī | locative | from Damīra |
| al-Dānī | locative | from Denia |
| al-Dar`ī | locative | place in Morocco |
| al-Darūqī | locative | from Daroca |
| al-Dawraqī | locative | from Daroca |
| al-Daylamī | locative | from Daylam (in Iran) |
| al-Dimashqī | locative | from Damascus |
| al-Dīnawarī | locative | from Dīnawar |
| al-Falīshī | locative | from Flix |
| al-Fārisī | locative | from Persia |
| al-Fāsī | locative | from Fez |
| al-Firyābī | locative | from Firyāb (Afghanistan) |
| al-Fīshī | locative | from Fīsha |
| al-Furgulīṭī | locative | from Furgulīṭ |
| al-Gadāmisī | locative | Gadāmis, Libya |
| al-Gāfiqī | locative | from Gāfiq (modern Benalcazar) |
| al-Garnāṭī | locative | from Granada |
| al-Gazālī | locative | from Gazāl (Iran) |
| al-Ḥaḍramī | locative | from Hadramawt (Yemen) |
| al-Ḥajarī | locative | from Canjayar |
| al-Ḥalabī | locative | from Aleppo |
| al-Ḥalfāwī | locative | from Ḥalfā (maybe in the Sudan) |
| al-Ḥamawī | locative | from Hama (Syria) |
| al-Ḥarāllī | locative | from Ḥarālla |
| al-Ḥawḍī | locative | from al-Ḥawḍ (near Almeria) |
| al-Ḥijārī | locative | from Guadalajara |
| al-Ḥimṣī | locative | from Ḥimṣ (modern Emesa), Syria |
| al-Ḥimyarī | locative | from Ḥimyar (Arabia) |
| al-Ḥulwānī | locative | from Ḥulwān (Egypt) |
| al-Hajarī | locative | from Canjayar |
| al-Hamadhanī | locative | from Hamadhan (Persia) |
| al-Hawwārī | locative | from Hawwār or al-Hawwārī (Libya) |
| al-Hijarī | locative | from Guadalara (?) |
| al-Ifrīqī | locative | from Africa |
| al-Ilbīrī | locative | from Elvira |
| al-Irbilī | locative | from Arbela |
| al-Iṣbahānī | locative | from Isabahan (Persia) |
| al-Ishbīlī | locative | from Sevilla |
| al-Ishkarbī | locative | from Ishkarb |
| al-Iskandarī | locative | from Alexandria |
| al-Istijī | locative | from Ecija |
| al-Jabalī | locative | from al-Jabal |
| al-Jalūdī | locative | from Jalūd, north Africa |
| al-Jalūlī | locative | from Jalūlā`, north Africa |
| al-Jawandī | locative | from Jawand (Afghanistan) |
| al-Jawlānī | locative | from Jawlān (Syria) |
| al-Jayyānī | locative | from Jaen |
| al-Jazā'irī | locative | from Algeria |
| al-Jazarī | locative | from Algeciras |
| al-Jazīrī | locative | from Algeciras |
| al-Jillīqī | locative | from Jillīqiya |
| al-Jinjīlī | locative | from Chinchilla |
| al-Jinjiyālī | locative | from Chinchilla |
| al-Jīzī | locative | from Gizeh, Egypt |
| al-Julūlī | locative | from Jalūlā`, north Africa |
| al-Kalābādhī | locative | from Kalābādh, near Bukhara |
| al-Karamānī | locative | from Karmān |
| al-Karmānī | locative | from Karmān |
| al-Kashkīnānī | locative | from Kashkīnān |
| al-Kirmānī | locative | from Kirmān (Persia) |
| al-Kuznī | locative | from Kuzna |
| al-Labābī | locative | from Labata |
| al-Lamāyī | locative | from Lamāya |
| al-Lamṭī | locative | from Lamṭa (North Africa) |
| al-Laqanṭī | locative | from Alicante |
| al-Lāridī | locative | from Lérida |
| al-Lirī | locative | from Liria |
| al-Lurqī | locative | from Lorca |
| al-Lurtī | locative | from Lurt |
| al-Ma`qilī | locative | from Nahr al-Ma`qil (in Basra, Iraq) |
| al-Madanī | locative | from Medina |
| al-Madīnī | locative | from a place Medinat X (near Cordoba) |
| al-Magāmī | locative | from Magán |
| al-Magrāwī | locative | from Almagro |
| al-Magribī | locative | from the Magreb |
| al-Maḥallī | locative | from al-Maḥalla, Egypt |
| al-Makkī | locative | from Mecca |
| al-Mālaqī | locative | from Málaga |
| al-Māliṭī | locative | from Māliṭa |
| al-Mallāḥī | locative | from Mala |
| al-Manārī | locative | from Almenar |
| al-Manfalūṭī | locative | from Manfalūṭ (Egypt) |
| al-Manūfī | locative | from Manūf |
| al-Maqqarī | locative | from Maqqara (North Africa) |
| al-Marāgī | locative | from al-Marāga (Azerbajan) |
| al-Marī | locative | from Almeria |
| al-Marrākushī | locative | from Marrakech, Morocco |
| al-Marwazī | locative | from Marwaz (modern Merv) |
| al-Masīlī | locative | from al-Masīla |
| al-Maṭmāṭī | locative | from Maṭmāṭa (Tunisia) |
| al-Mawṣilī | locative | from Mawṣil (Mosul) |
| al-Mayūrqī | locative | from Mallorca |
| al-Māzarī | locative | from Māzara (Sicily) |
| al-Māzūnī | locative | from Māzūn (Algeria) |
| al-Miṣrī | locative | from Misr (Cairo) |
| al-Munastīrī | locative | from al-Munastīr (Tunisia) |
| al-Mundhirī | locative | from the al-Mundhiriyya region (Yemen) |
| al-Muntajīlī | locative | from Muntjīl |
| al-Muntijīlī | locative | from Muntjīl |
| al-Muntīshī | locative | from Mentesa |
| al-Munyī | locative | from Munyat `Ajab |
| al-Muqaddasī | locative | from Maqdis or Muqaqddas (Jerusalem) |
| al-Murbayṭarī | locative | from Morviedro |
| al-Mūrī | locative | from Mora |
| al-Murkayshī | locative | from Murkaysh |
| al-Mursī | locative | from Murcia |
| al-Nabātī | locative | a non-Arabic people of Iraq |
| al-Nābulusī | locative | from Nāblus |
| al-Nafzī | locative | from Nafza (or of the Nafza tribe) |
| al-Nawawī | locative | from Nawa (Syria) |
| al-Nīlī | locative | from the Nile |
| al-Nīsābūrī | locative | from Nīsābūr (Iran) |
| al-Qabrī | locative | from Cabra |
| al-Qādisī | locative | from Cadiz |
| al-Qafṣī | locative | from Qafsa, Tunisia |
| al-Qāhirī | locative | from Cairo |
| al-Qal`ī | locative | from a place called Qal`at X (like Calatayud) |
| al-Qalawsī | locative | from Qalawas (Syria) |
| al-Qaltāwī | locative | from Qaltā |
| al-Qanbī | locative | from Qanba |
| al-Qarabāqī | locative | from Caravaca |
| al-Qarāfī | locative | from al-Qarāfa, near Cairo |
| al-Qarmūnī | locative | from Carmona |
| al-Qaṣrī | locative | from Qaṣr Kutāma |
| al-Qashbī | locative | from Caspe |
| al-Qasṭallānī | locative | from Castilla |
| al-Qasṭallī | locative | from Cazalilla |
| al-Qaṭīnī | locative | from Qaṭīna |
| al-Qawrī | locative | from Coria |
| al-Qayrawānī | locative | from al-Qayrawān, Tunisia |
| al-Qayshāṭī | locative | from Quesada |
| al-Qazwīnī | locative | from Qazwīn (Iran) |
| al-Qubbashī | locative | from Qubbash (Syria) |
| al-Qudsī | locative | from Jerusalem |
| al-Qūnkī | locative | from Cuenca |
| al-Qurashī | locative | from Quraysh |
| al-Qurṭubī | locative | from Córdoba (Qurṭub) |
| al-Qusanṭānī | locative | from Cocentaina |
| al-Qusanṭīnī | locative | from Constantinople |
| al-Ramādī | locative | from Ramāda |
| al-Rāzī | locative | from Rayy (Iran) |
| al-Riklī | locative | from Ricla |
| al-Riqūṭī | locative | from Riqūṭ (Ricote) |
| al-Rukānī | locative | from Requena |
| al-Rundī | locative | from Ronda |
| al-Ruṣāfī | locative | from Ruṣāfa de Cordoba |
| al-Ṣafadī | locative | from Ṣafad (Syria) |
| al-Ṣafāqusī | locative | from Ṣafāqus (Sfax, Tunisia) |
| al-Ṣajrī | locative | from Ṣajrat Ḥaway |
| al-Ṣanḥāyī | locative | from Ṣanhāja, West Africa |
| al-Ṣanhājī | locative | from Ṣanhāja, West Africa |
| al-Ṣiqillī | locative | from Sicily |
| al-Sabtī | locative | from Ceuta |
| al-Safāqusī | locative | from Ṣafāqus; also appears as al-Ṣafāqusī |
| al-Sāḥilī | locative | from the coast (or a place called Sāḥil) |
| al-Sahlī | locative | from al-Sahla |
| al-Salāwī | locative | from Salā (north Africa) |
| al-Santamarī | locative | from Santamaría |
| al-Saraqusṭī | locative | from Zaragoza |
| al-Shādhilī | locative | from Shādhila (Tunisia) |
| al-Shadhūnī | locative | from Shadhūna (Sidonia) |
| al-Shahrazūrī | locative | from Shahrazūr (in Iraqi Kurdistan) |
| al-Shalūbīnī | locative | from Salobreña |
| al-Shalūnī | locative | from Jalón |
| al-Shantarīnī | locative | from Shantarīn (Santarem) |
| al-Shaqabānī | locative | from Secavem |
| al-Shaqūrī | locative | from Segura |
| al-Sharafī | locative | from Aljarafe |
| al-Shāriqī | locative | from Jérica |
| al-Shāshī | locative | from Shāsh (Tashkent) |
| al-Shāṭibī | locative | from Játiva |
| al-Shaybānī | locative | from Calanda |
| al-Shilbī | locative | from Silves |
| al-Shīrāzī | locative | from al-Shīrāz (Iran) |
| al-Shubrubī | locative | from Segorbe |
| al-Shumuntānī | locative | from Somontán |
| al-Shuriyyūnī | locative | from Shuriyyūn |
| al-Shushtarī | locative | from Sushtar |
| al-Sibtī | locative | from Ceuta |
| al-Sijilmāsī | locative | from Sijilmāsa, Morocco |
| al-Suhaylī | locative | from Suhayl (modern Fuengirola) |
| al-Surittī | locative | from Zorita |
| al-Surnī | locative | from Surna |
| al-Sūsī | locative | from Sūsa |
| al-Ṭabīrī | locative | from Tavira |
| al-Ṭābithī | locative | from Tavira |
| al-Ṭahāwī | locative | from Ṭahā (Egypt) |
| al-Ṭalamankī | locative | from Talamanca |
| al-Ṭalyāṭī | locative | from Toledo |
| al-Ṭanjī | locative | from Ṭanja (Tangiers) |
| al-Ṭarābulusī | locative | from Ṭarābulus (Tripoli, Lebanon) |
| al-Ṭarasūnī | locative | from al-Ṭarasūna (Tarazona) |
| al-Ṭaryānī | locative | from Ṭaryāna (Triana) |
| al-Ṭignarī | locative | from al-Ṭignar |
| al-Ṭubnī | locative | from Ṭubna |
| al-Ṭulayṭulī | locative | from Ṭulayṭula (Toledo) |
| al-Ṭurṭushī | locative | from Ṭurṭusha (Tortosa) |
| al-Ṭūsī | locative | from al-Ṭūsa (Persia) |
| al-Ṭūṭāliqī | locative | from Totálica |
| al-Ṭuṭīlī | locative | from Tudela |
| al-Tādilī | locative | from Tadla |
| al-Tājūrī | locative | from Tājūra (Libya) |
| al-Takrūrī | locative | from Takrūr (Sahel) |
| al-Tākurunnī | locative | from Tākurunna |
| al-Tamagrūtī | locative | from Tamagrūt (Morocco) |
| al-Tanasī | locative | from Tenes (Algeria) |
| al-Tarrāsī | locative | from Tarrasa |
| al-Tawazī | locative | from Tawwaz |
| al-Tawwazī | locative | from Tawwaz |
| al-Tāzī | locative | from Tāza (Morocco) |
| al-Tilimsānī | locative | from Tilimsān, Algeria |
| al-Tinbuktī | locative | from Timbuktu |
| al-Tudmīrī | locative | from Tudmīr |
| al-Tujunī | locative | from Tajuña |
| al-Tūnisī | locative | from Tunis |
| al-Tustarī | locative | from Tustar, Iran |
| al-Ubbadī | locative | from Ubeda |
| al-Udfuwī | locative | from Udfu |
| al-Undī | locative | from Onda |
| al-Uqlīshī | locative | from Uclés |
| al-Ūriyūlī | locative | from Orihuela |
| al-Uryūlī | locative | from Orihuela |
| al-Ushbūnī | locative | al-Ushbūn (Lisbon) |
| al-Ushūqī | locative | from Osuna |
| al-Wahrānī | locative | from Wahrān (Algeria) |
| al-Wansharīshī | locative | from Wansharīsh (North Africa) |
| al-Waqashī | locative | from Huecas |
| al-Washqī | locative | from Huesca |
| al-Yābisī | locative | from Ibiza |
| al-Yāburī | locative | from Évora |
| al-Yamanī | locative | from Yemen |
| al-Yanashtī | locative | from Iniesta |
| al-Zafrī | locative | from Zafra (near Badajoz) |
| al-Zaharī | locative | from Medina Azahara |
| al-Zahrāwī | locative | from al-Zahrā’ (near Cordoba) |
| al-Zajājilī | locative | from Zajājila (Cordoba) |
| al-Zajjā`lī | locative | from Zajājila (Cordoba) |
| al-Zanātī | locative | from Zanāta |
| al-Zanqī | locative | from Zanq |
| al-`Ashshāb | occupational | the herbalist |
| al-`Assāl | occupational | honey-seller |
| al-`Aṭṭār | occupational | perfumer |
| al-`Ulamī | occupational | mullah |
| al-Bannā' | occupational | builder, architect, mason |
| al-Baqqāl | occupational | grocer |
| al-Bayṭar | occupational | veterinarian, farrier |
| al-Bazzāz | occupational | clothier |
| al-Burnusī | occupational | maker of headgear |
| al-Dabbāg | occupational | tanner |
| al-Dahhān | occupational | seller of hair oil |
| al-Dallāl | occupational | broker |
| al-Dhāri` | occupational | measurer (of land) |
| al-Fajjār | occupational | potter |
| al-Faqīh | occupational | jurist, legal professional |
| al-Faraḍī | occupational | the partitioner (of goods among heirs) |
| al-Ḥabbāk | occupational | weaver |
| al-Ḥabbāl | occupational | maker of ropes |
| al-Ḥaddād | occupational | blacksmith |
| al-Ḥaffār | occupational | gravedigger |
| al-Ḥarīrī | occupational | silk merchant |
| al-Ḥaṣṣār | occupational | mat maker |
| al-Harawī | occupational | cloth seller |
| al-Imām | occupational | the imam, prayer leader |
| al-Jallāb | occupational | trader |
| al-Jannān | occupational | gardener |
| al-Jarrār | occupational | potter |
| al-Jawharī | occupational | jeweler, seller of precious stones |
| al-Julūdī | occupational | furrier, tanner |
| al-Jundī | occupational | soldier |
| al-Kammād | occupational | presser (may refer to clothing or to juice) |
| al-Karabīsī | occupational | seller of coarse cloth |
| al-Kātib | occupational | scribe, government minister |
| al-Kattānī | occupational | dealer in flax/linen |
| al-Mu`allim | occupational | teacher |
| al-Mujāhid | occupational | warrior, jihadist |
| al-Muqri´ | occupational | teacher of Quran |
| al-Muwaththiq | occupational | notary |
| al-Naḥḥās | occupational | seller of brass vessels |
| al-Naḥwī | occupational | grammar teacher, tutor |
| al-Najjār | occupational | carpenter |
| al-Qāḍī | occupational | magistrate, judge |
| al-Qalānisī | occupational | maker of cloth caps |
| al-Qammāḥ | occupational | the wheat merchant |
| al-Qaṣṣār | occupational | fuller |
| al-Qaṭṭān | occupational | seller of cotton |
| al-Rā`ī | occupational | shepherd |
| al-Rammāḥ | occupational | lance maker |
| al-Rashshash | occupational | sprinkler of water (to keep dust down?) |
| al-Ṣabbāgh | occupational | garment dyer |
| al-Ṣadafī | occupational | seller of mother of pearl |
| al-Ṣaffār | occupational | coppersmith |
| al-Ṣa'igh | occupational | goldsmith |
| al-Ṣayrafī | occupational | money changer |
| al-Sakkāk | occupational | knife maker |
| al-Sarrāj | occupational | seller of saddles |
| al-Shammā` | occupational | the wax producer |
| al-Shurūṭī | occupational | a type of legal specialist in contract law |
| al-Ṭarrāz | occupational | probably al-Tarraz – carrier of grain |
| al-Tammār | occupational | date seller |
| al-Wādī | occupational | holy man (literally “friend of God”) |
| al-Wazzān | occupational | weigher |
| al-Zajjājī | occupational | glassmaker |
| al-Zaqqāq | occupational | maker of wineskins |
| al-Zayyāt | occupational | maker of olive oil |
| al-Ash`arī | religious | follower of the al-Ash`arī theological school |
| al-Ḥājj | religious | one who has been on the hajj |
| al-Ḥanafī | religious | a follower of the Ḥanafī legal school |
| al-Mahdawī | religious | followers of the Mahdī |
| al-Mālikī | religious | a follower of the Mālikī legal school |
| al-Mu`taziliī | religious | follower of the Mu`tazila theological school |
| al-Shāfi`ī | religious | follower of the Shāfi`ī legal tradition |
| al-`Abasī | tribal | from the tribes of Gaṭafān, Murād and Azḍ |
| al-`Abdarī | tribal | of the Abduddar tribe |
| al-`Absī | tribal | from the tribes of Gaṭafān, Murād and Azḍ |
| al-`Anasī | tribal | from the "qaḥṭāní de Madhḥij" tribe (Yemen) |
| al-`Ansī | tribal | from the "qaḥṭāní de Madhḥij" tribe (Yemen) |
| al-Anṣārī | tribal | early converts in Medina |
| al-Aṣbaḥī | tribal | of the Aṣbaḥ tribe |
| al-Awsī | tribal | from the Aws tribe |
| al-Azdī | tribal | from the Azḍ tribe |
| al-Bāhilī | tribal | from the Bāhila tribe |
| al-Dukkālī | tribal | member of the Dukkāla tribe (Morocco) |
| al-Gassānī | tribal | member of the Gassān tribe |
| al-Ḥarīshī | tribal | of the Ḥarīsh tribe (tribe of the Banī `Āmir |
| al-Haskūrī | tribal | member of the Haskūra tribe (Berber) |
| al-Hintātī | tribal | member of the Hintāta tribe |
| al-Hizmīrī | tribal | error for Hizmīrī (member of the Ḥizmīr tribe) |
| al-Jazrajī | tribal | of the Jazraj tribe (Arabia) |
| al-Jazūlī | tribal | of the Jazūla tribe (Berber, Morocco) |
| al-Juḍāmī | tribal | of the Juḍām tribe |
| al-Judhāmī | tribal | of the Judhām tribe |
| al-Juhanī | tribal | of the Jahina tribe |
| al-Kalā`ī | tribal | from the al-Kalā` tribe |
| al-Kilā`ī | tribal | from the al-Kalā` tribe |
| al-Kindī | tribal | belonging to the Kindah tribe |
| al-Kutāmī | tribal | of the Kutāma tribe |
| al-Lajamī | tribal | of the Lajm tribe |
| al-Lajmī | tribal | of the Lajm tribe |
| al-Lawātī | tribal | perhaps from the Lu’ayy family (Oman) |
| al-Laythī | tribal | of the Layth tribe (Arabia) |
| al-Ma`āfirī | tribal | of the Ma`āfir tribe |
| al-Madyūnī | tribal | of the al-Madyūna tribe |
| al-Magīlī | tribal | of the Magīla tribe (Berber) |
| al-Maṣmūdī | tribal | of the Maṣmūd tribe |
| al-Masūfī | tribal | of the Masūfa tribe |
| al-Miknāsī | tribal | of the Miknāsa tribe (from Algeria) |
| al-Mu`āfirī | tribal | of the Ma`āfir tribe |
| al-Muḥāribī | tribal | of the Muḥārib clan |
| al-Naj`ī | tribal | part of the Madhḥij tribe |
| al-Naja`ī | tribal | part of the Madhḥij tribe |
| al-Qaranī | tribal | part of the Murād tribe |
| al-Quranī | tribal | part of the Murād tribe |
| al-Qushayrī | tribal | of the Qushayr tribe |
| al-Riyāhī | tribal | of the Riyāh tribe |
| al-Ru`aynī | tribal | of the al-Ru`ayn tribe |
| al-Sadūsī | tribal | member of the Sadūs tribe |
| al-Sahmī | tribal | of the Sahm tribe |
| al-Sakūnī | tribal | of the Sakūn tribe |
| al-Sha`bī | tribal | from the Sha`b clan |
| al-Sulamī | tribal | from the Sulaym tribe |
| al-Taglibī | tribal | member of the Taglib tribe |
| al-Tha`ālibī | tribal | from the Tha`ālib tribe (Arabia) |
| al-Wansharīsī | tribal | of the Wansharīs tribe (North Africa) |
| al-Zammūrī | tribal | of the Zammūr tribe (Morocco) |
| al-Zanātī | tribal | of the Zanāta tribe |
| al-Zubaydī | tribal | of the Zubayd tribe |
| al-Zuhrī | tribal | of the Zuhra clan |
| al-`Arabī | tribal/ethnic | Arab |
| al-Wankarī | tribal/ethnic | also al-Wangarī; Dyula merchant (West Africa) |
| al-`Afawī | unknown | |
| al-`Ajīsī | unknown | |
| al-`Atakī | unknown | |
| al-`Azafī | unknown | |
| al-`Idwānī | unknown | |
| al-`Ināṭī | unknown | |
| al-`Ujaysī | unknown | |
| al-`Uqbānī | unknown | |
| al-`Utaqī | unknown | |
| al-Afqahsī | unknown | |
| al-Agṣāwī | unknown | |
| al-Ajhūrī | unknown | |
| al-Ajnā'ī | unknown | |
| al-Anfāsī | unknown | |
| al-Armawī | unknown | |
| al-Ashja`ī | unknown | |
| al-Awranī | unknown | |
| al-Awṣī | unknown | |
| al-Azharī | unknown | |
| al-Baḥīrī | unknown | |
| al-Bahfashīmī | unknown | |
| al-Bajjānī | unknown | |
| al-Balanī | unknown | |
| al-Banbī | unknown | |
| al-Banūfrī | unknown | |
| al-Baqqūrī | unknown | |
| al-Barādhi`ī | unknown | |
| al-Barjī | unknown | |
| al-Barmūnī | unknown | |
| al-Barqī | unknown | |
| al-Barshakī | unknown | |
| al-Barshawī | unknown | |
| al-Basaṭī | unknown | |
| al-Basātī | unknown | |
| al-Basf̣ī | unknown | |
| al-Basīlī | unknown | |
| al-Basṭī | unknown | |
| al-Baṭṭuwī | unknown | |
| al-Baydarī | unknown | |
| al-Bijā'ī | unknown | |
| al-Bilbālī | unknown | |
| al-Bisā`ī | unknown | |
| al-Biṭrūnī | unknown | |
| al-Būfaryī | unknown | |
| al-Bujā'ī | unknown | |
| al-Bukā´ | unknown | |
| al-Burullusī | unknown | |
| al-Burzulī | unknown | |
| al-Būzaydī | unknown | |
| al-Ḍabbī | unknown | |
| al-Ḍinnī | unknown | |
| al-Dafrī | unknown | |
| al-Daqqūn | unknown | |
| al-Dāraquṭnī | unknown | |
| al-Dhibḥ | unknown | |
| al-Dīmī | unknown | |
| al-Fahdī | unknown | |
| al-Fahranī | unknown | |
| al-Fanzārī | unknown | |
| al-Fāriqī | unknown | |
| al-Fasawī | unknown | |
| al-Fata | unknown | |
| al-Fazārī | unknown | |
| al-Fīlālī | unknown | |
| al-Fishtālī | unknown | |
| al-Fundalāwī | unknown | |
| al-Funta’awrī | unknown | |
| al-Furāt | unknown | |
| al-Gafajūnī | unknown | |
| al-Gammāz | unknown | |
| al-Garīḍ | unknown | |
| al-Gubrīnī | unknown | |
| al-Gumārī | unknown | |
| al-Guryānī | unknown | |
| al-Ḥabīb | unknown | |
| al-Ḥasnāwī | unknown | |
| al-Ḥawfī | unknown | |
| al-Ḥayāwī | unknown | |
| al-Ḥīḥī | unknown | |
| al-Ḥinā´ī | unknown | |
| al-Habṭī | unknown | |
| al-Handīsī | unknown | |
| al-Hunā'ī | unknown | |
| al-Ianāsnī | unknown | |
| al-Iyānī | unknown | |
| al-Ja`marī | unknown | |
| al-Jalaqī | unknown | |
| al-Jānātī | unknown | |
| al-Jarajī | unknown | |
| al-Jarāwī | unknown | |
| al-Jaṭīb | unknown | |
| al-Jaṭṭāb | unknown | |
| al-Jayyāb | unknown | |
| al-Jayyāsh | unknown | |
| al-Jidmīwī | unknown | |
| al-Jilāwī | unknown | |
| al-Jilyānī | unknown | |
| al-Jinnī | unknown | |
| al-Julṭī | unknown | |
| al-Jushanī | unknown | |
| al-Juzā`ī | unknown | |
| al-Kadāwī | unknown | |
| al-Kanābishī | unknown | |
| al-Kāwānī | unknown | |
| al-Kaznā'ī | unknown | |
| al-Lablī | unknown | |
| al-Labsī | unknown | |
| al-Lajā'ī | unknown | |
| al-Luqānī | unknown | |
| al-Magāzbī | unknown | |
| al-Māirī | unknown | |
| al-Majāṣī | unknown | |
| al-Majdūlī | unknown | |
| al-Mājrī | unknown | |
| al-Makkūdī | unknown | |
| al-Malīkishī | unknown | |
| al-Mamsī | unknown | |
| al-Mānawī | unknown | |
| al-Manjalātī | unknown | |
| al-Manjūr | unknown | |
| al-Mankallātī | unknown | |
| al-Marjūlī | unknown | |
| al-Maslāfī | unknown | |
| al-Maslātī | unknown | |
| al-Masnāwī | unknown | |
| al-Masrānī | unknown | |
| al-Maṭgarī | unknown | |
| al-Maṭrī | unknown | |
| al-Mattīṭī | unknown | |
| al-Mattīwī | unknown | |
| al-Māwāsī | unknown | |
| al-Mawwāq | unknown | |
| al-Mazdagī | unknown | |
| al-Mazgaldī | unknown | |
| al-Mazīlī | unknown | |
| al-Mijrād | unknown | |
| al-Miltānī | unknown | |
| al-Mintawrī | unknown | |
| al-Mishidhdhālī | unknown | |
| al-Mu`īthī | unknown | |
| al-Mūminānī | unknown | |
| al-Munāṣif | unknown | |
| al-Muzanī | unknown | |
| al-Nadrūmī | unknown | |
| al-Naḥrīnī | unknown | |
| al-Nālī | unknown | |
| al-Naqāwisī | unknown | |
| al-Nās | unknown | |
| al-Nījī | unknown | |
| al-Nu`mān | unknown | may be error for al-Nu`mānī, descendant of Nu`mān |
| al-Nubāhī | unknown | |
| al-Qabbāb | unknown | |
| al-Qalaṣādī | unknown | |
| al-Qalshānī | unknown | |
| al-Qanāzi`ī | unknown | |
| al-Qanāzi`ī | unknown | |
| al-Qantūrī | unknown | |
| al-Qara`a | unknown | |
| al-Qarawī | unknown | |
| al-Qarrāf | unknown | |
| al-Qaṣīr | unknown | |
| al-Qayjamīsī | unknown | |
| al-Qayjāṭī | unknown | |
| al-Qibla | unknown | |
| al-Qījāṭī | unknown | |
| al-Qub`a | unknown | |
| al-Qūba` | unknown | |
| al-Quḍā`ī | unknown | |
| al-Qusanfīnī | unknown | |
| al-Qusī | unknown | |
| al-Qūtī | unknown | |
| al-Raba`ī | unknown | |
| al-Ragrāgī | unknown | |
| al-Rahūnī | unknown | |
| al-Rāmūdhī | unknown | |
| al-Raṣṣā` | unknown | |
| al-Rub`ī | unknown | |
| al-Rushāṭī | unknown | |
| al-Ṣadīnī | unknown | |
| al-Ṣarīḥī | unknown | |
| al-Ṣawdī | unknown | |
| al-Sajāwī | unknown | |
| al-Samṭī | unknown | |
| al-Sanhūrī | unknown | |
| al-Sanūsī | unknown | |
| al-Saṭī | unknown | |
| al-Saṭṭī | unknown | |
| al-Saytānī | unknown | |
| al-Shafshāwī | unknown | |
| al-Shalawbīn | unknown | |
| al-Shamanī | unknown | |
| al-Shanijālī | unknown | |
| al-Sharrān | unknown | |
| al-Shāṭ | unknown | |
| al-Shāṭbitī | unknown | |
| al-Shayj | unknown | |
| al-Silafī | unknown | |
| al-Suktānī | unknown | |
| al-Sukūnī | unknown | |
| al-Ṭā'ī | unknown | |
| al-Ṭāy | unknown | |
| al-Tadlasī | unknown | |
| al-Talqūnī | unknown | |
| al-Tanūjī | unknown | |
| al-Tasūlī | unknown | |
| al-Tatā'ī | unknown | |
| al-Tāzagdrī | unknown | |
| al-Tāzajtī | unknown | |
| al-Thaqafī | unknown | |
| al-Tigātī | unknown | |
| al-Tijānī | unknown | |
| al-Trānbī | unknown | |
| al-Waglīsī | unknown | |
| al-Wajdījī | unknown | |
| al-Wāngīlī | unknown | |
| al-Wānnūgī | unknown | |
| al-Warasāmī | unknown | |
| al-Wargammī | unknown | |
| al-Warnīdī | unknown | |
| al-Waryāglī | unknown | |
| al-Washtātī | unknown | |
| al-Wastānī | unknown | |
| al-Wirgimmī | unknown | |
| al-Wizirwālī | unknown | |
| al-Ya`marī | unknown | |
| al-Yadrī | unknown | |
| al-Yānawī | unknown | |
| al-Yāṣlūtī | unknown | also appears as al-Yāliṣūtī |
| al-Yassītinī | unknown | |
| al-Ẓunayn | unknown | |
| al-Zaldīwī | unknown | |
| al-Zamajsharī | unknown | |
| al-Zandīwī | unknown | |
| al-Zirwālī | unknown | |
| al-Zugbī | unknown | |
| al-Zukandrī | unknown | |
| al-Zurwīlī | unknown | |
| al-Zuwāwī | unknown | |
| al-Zuwaydūrī | unknown | |