Note / Clarification: (4) In Khalifah bin Khayyat's "al-Tabaqat" (p. 70), Hatib's kunyah is "Abu Abd Allah", and Ibn Mandah narrated that from him with a chain in "Fath al-Bab fi al-Kuna wa al-Alqab" (4175). But the kunyah "Abu Muhammad" for Hatib is better known, as al-Waqidi gave it to him in his following narration with the author (al-Hakim), and likewise Yahya bin Bukayr, as will come at no. (5390). This is also the view of Abu al-Hasan Ali bin Muhammad al-Mada'ini, as Ibn Abi Khaythamah cited from him in the second volume of his "al-Tarikh al-Kabir" (634).

Technical note / Defect ('illah): Al-Tabari differed from all of them in "Dhayl al-Mudhayyal" (as in its "Muntakhab" by Arib bin Sa'd al-Qurtubi, appended to "Tarikh al-Tabari" 11/ 675), giving his kunyah as "Abu Abd al-Rahman"!