Junada ibn Abi Umayya al-Azdi (Arabic: جنادة بن أبي أمية الأزدي, died 699) was a Syria-based commander of naval and land forces under the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680) and a transmitter of hadiths (earliest Islamic traditions).
[5] According to early Muslim Egyptian and Syrian sources, Junada oversaw the naval raids against the Byzantine Empire initiated during the governorship of Syria by Mu'awiya I, the future founder of the Umayyad Caliphate.
Junada's activities were halted during the First Muslim Civil War (656–661), likely as Mu'awiya had to concentrate his troops and treasure in his confrontation with Caliph Ali.
[10] Junada was held by al-Tabari to have established a permanent Arab garrison in Rhodes, but the colony was frequently blockaded and harassed by Byzantine ships.
C. E. Bosworth has also dismissed the episode, in particular the implication that Junada continuously resided on the island during the supposed seven-year duration of the Arab presence as he is mentioned leading land and sea campaigns against Byzantine Anatolia throughout the 670s.