The Origins of the Name Abu Walid

In the ancient Jewish world, you would be known as the son of someone. So I would have been Mikhail Ben-Avram, Michael, son of Abram. But generally speaking, you would just be known as so-and-so,. However, for clarification, if your son was known and you wanted to say, oh, it's the father of that person, then that would be a further clarification.