Chapter 62: Companions of the Prophet
Narrated Ibrahim: 'Alqama went to Sham and when he entered the mosque, he said, "O Allah ! Bless me with a pious
companion." So he sat with Abu Ad-Darda. Abu Ad-Darda' asked him, "Where are you from?"
'Alqama replied, "From the people of Kufa." Abu Ad-Darda said, "Isn' t there amongst you the Keeper
of the secret which nobody else knows i. e. Hudhaifa?" Al-qama said, "Yes." Then Abu Ad-Darda
further said, "Isn' t there amongst you the person whom Allah gave Refuge from Satan through the
invocation of His Prophet namely 'Ammar?" Alqama replied in the affirmative Abu Ad-Darda said,
"Isn' t there amongst you the person who carries the Siwak (or the Secret) (i. e. of the Prophet (ﷺ) namely
'Abdullah bin Massud)?" Alqama said, "Yes." Then Abu Ad-Darda asked, "How (Abdullah bin
Masud) used to recite the Sura starting with: "By the night as it envelopes; By the day as it appears in
brightness?" ( 92.1-2). Alqama said "And by male and female." Abu Ad-Darda then said, "These
people (of Sham) tried hard to make me accept something other than what I had heard from the
Prophet."
Sahih al-Bukhari 3743