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Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, " Every nation has an extremely trustworthy man, and the trustworthy man of
this (i.e. Muslim) nation is Abu 'Ubaida bin Al-Jarrah."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 62, Hadith 89
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'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."
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The Prophet (ﷺ) said to the people of Nijran, "I will send you the most trustworthy man." (Every one of)
the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) was looking forward (to be that person). He then sent Abu 'Ubaida.