What is the central ambiguity in “al-Aswad ibn Yazīd” and “Yazīd ibn al-Aswad”?
Narrator Name Ambiguities: Identical, Variant, Similar, and Reversed Names
- Both narrators come from the same city
- The hadith is mursal
- Given name and patronymic are reversed
- The narrator is majhūl al-ḥāl