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كَلْبِيُّ al-Kalbi in Arabic

كَلْبِيُّ is how you say “al-Kalbi” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَقَالَ إِسْحَاقُ الْكَلْبِيُّ وَعُقَيْلٌ رَمْرَمَةٌ

And Ishaq al-Kalbi and Uqayl said, "murmuring."

الْكَلْبِيُّ al-Kalbi

A descriptive surname formed from a tribe or origin, working as an adjective-like tag on the name before it. It agrees with that name and carries the prefixed 'the', marking it as the recognised, fixed attribution of this particular narrator.

From A Night with the Companions

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