Question: what ibn and bin mean in names?
Answer: The nasab is the patronymic and starts with bin or ibn, which means “son of”, or bint, which means “daughter of”. It acknowledges the father of the child. Matronymics are not used in Arabic. The nasab often follows the ism, so that you have, for example, Fahad ibn Abdul Aziz, which means “Fahad, son of Abdul Aziz”.