Abū ʿAwn Abd al-Malik b. Yazīd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Abū ʿAwn ʿAbd al-Malik b. Yazīd al-Khurāsānī al-Jurjānī al-Azdī (d. c. 168/784-5) is called al-ʿAtakī by some (al-Azdī, 125-6, 140, 252). In other sources he is regarded as a mawlā of Hunāʾa, a different sub-tribe of al-Azd (al-Kindī, 101, where the word "Hunāʾa" is garbled and the editor has corrected the name according to Yāqūt, 4:123; Ibn ʿAsākir, 37:180; al-Qalqashandī, 1:173, where Mawlā Banī Asad" should be read Azd, not Asad). Apart from her