'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.