صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim
كتاب النكاح
The Book of Marriage
باب اسْتِحْبَابِ النِّكَاحِ لِمَنْ تَاقَتْ نَفْسُهُ إِلَيْهِ وَوَجَدَ مُؤْنَةً وَاشْتِغَالِ مَنْ عَجَزَ عَنِ الْمُؤَنِ بِالصَّوْمِ:
Chapter: Marriage is recommended for the one who desires it and can afford it, and the one who cannot afford it should distract himself by fasting
Hadith 1400
This hadith is listed as number 3399 in Maktaba Shamila
حدثنا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ، حدثنا جَرِيرٌ ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ، عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ ، قَالَ : إِنِّي لَأَمْشِي مَعَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ بِمِنًى إِذْ لَقِيَهُ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَ ، فقَالَ : هَلُمَّ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ ، قَالَ : فَاسْتَخْلَاهُ ، فَلَمَّا رَأَى عَبْدُ اللَّهِ أَنْ لَيْسَتْ لَهُ حَاجَةٌ ، قَالَ : قَالَ لِي : تَعَالَ يَا عَلْقَمَةُ ، قَالَ : فَجِئْتُ ، فقَالَ لَهُ عُثْمَانُ : أَلَا نُزَوِّجُكَ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ جَارِيَةً بِكْرًا لَعَلَّهُ يَرْجِعُ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ نَفْسِكَ مَا كُنْتَ تَعْهَدُ ، فقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ : لَئِنْ قُلْتَ ذَاكَ ، فَذَكَرَ بِمِثْلِ حَدِيثِ أَبِي مُعَاوِيَةَ .
'Alqama reported: While I was going along with 'Abdullah bin Ma'sud (RA) in Mina, 'Uthman bin 'Affan (RA) happened to meet him and said: Come here, Abu 'Abdul Rahman (kunya of'Abdullah bin Mas'ud), and he isolated him (from me), and when 'Abdullah (b. Mas'ud) saw that there was no need (for this privacy), he said to me: 'Alqama, come on, and so I went there. (Then) 'Uthman said to him: Abu Abdul Rahman, should we not marry you to a virgin girl that your past may be recalled to your mind? 'Abdullah said: If you say so, the rest of the hadith is the same as narrated above.
