His father, Abū Umayyah, possessed a measure of Companionship ⦗1⦘, and his personal name was Kabīr, spelled with the single-dotted bāʾ.

Junādah was put in charge of Muʿāwiyah’s naval expedition; he witnessed the conquest of Egypt and lived through both the pre-Islamic era and the time of Islam.

Ibrāhīm ibn al-Junayd said: “I heard Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn being asked, ‘Does Junādah ibn Abī Umayyah—the one from whom Mujāhid narrated—have Companionship?’ He replied, ‘Yes.’ I then asked, ‘Is he the same man who relates from ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit?’ He said, ‘He is indeed.’ ”

Ibn Saʿd ⦗2⦘, al-ʿIjli, and a number of other authorities declared him a Syrian Follower (tābiʿī), and that is the correct position. A hadith is authentically ascribed to him, but since he is a Follower it is classified as mursal.

Ibn Yūnus said: He died in 80 AH.
Al-Madāʾinī said: He died in 75 AH, and the same was stated by Ibn Maʿīn.
Al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī said: He died in 77 AH.
Other dates have also been mentioned ⦗3⦘, and Allah knows best.

17 – Masrūq ibn al-Ajdaʿ ibn Mālik al-Wādiʿī al-Hamdānī * (ʿ)
The leading imam, exemplar, and luminary; Abū ʿĀʾishah al-Wādiʿī, al-Hamdānī, al-Kūfī.
He is Masrūq ibn al-Ajdaʿ ibn Mālik ibn Umayyah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Murr ibn Salmān ibn Maʿmar.
It is also said that he was Salāman ibn Maʿmar ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAbd Allah