Alqama went to Sham and when he entered the mosque, he said, "O Allah ! Bless me with a piouscompanion." 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 Keeperof the secret which nobody else knows i.e. Hudhaifa?" Al-qama said, "Yes." Then Abu Ad-Dardafurther said, "Isn't there amongst you the person whom Allah gave Refuge from Satan through theinvocation 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 binMasud) used to recite the Sura starting with: "By the night as it envelopes; By the day as it appears inbrightness?" (92.1-2). Alqama said "And by male and female." Abu Ad-Darda then said, "Thesepeople (of Sham) tried hard to make me accept something other than what I had heard from theProphet."