ibn ʿAbd Allah, ibn Wādiʿah ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿĀmir ibn Nāshiḥ (1) ibn Dāfiʿ (2) ibn Mālik ibn Jusham ibn Hāshid ibn Jusham ibn Khaywān ibn Nawf ibn Hamdān.
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb said: It is reported that he was abducted when he was a child, then found, and thus came to be called “Masrūq” (the stolen one).
His father, al-Ajdaʿ, accepted Islam.
He narrated from Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, ʿUmar, and—if the chain is sound—from Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq; also from Umm Rumān, Muʿādh ibn Jabal, Khabbāb, ʿĀʾishah, Ibn Masʿūd, ʿUthmān (3), ʿAlī, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr, Ibn ʿUmar, Subayʿah, Maʿqil ibn Sinān, al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah, and Zayd.
Indeed, he even transmitted from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, the preacher of Mecca.
Those who reported from him include al-Shaʿbī, Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, Yaḥyā ibn Waththāb, ʿAbd Allah ibn Murrah, Abū Wāʾil, Yaḥyā ibn al-Jazzār, Abū Ḍuḥā, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿūd, ʿUbayd ibn Nuḍaylah, Makḥūl the Syrian—though I do not think he actually met him—Abū Isḥāq, Muḥammad ibn al-Muntashir, Muḥammad ibn Nashr al-Hamdānī, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ al-Jushamī, Ayyūb ibn Hāniʾ, ʿUmārah ibn ʿUmayr, Ḥibāl ibn Rufaydah, Anas ibn Sīrīn, Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ al-Muḥāribī, and others besides.
He is counted among the senior Followers and among the mukhaḍramīn—those who embraced Islam during the Prophet’s lifetime.
Abū Dāwūd said: al-Ajdaʿ was the finest horseman in Yemen.
Abū Dāwūd also said: Masrūq was the sister’s son of ʿAmr ibn Maʿdīkarib.