Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 141
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ نَهَّاسِ بْنِ قَهْمٍ، عَنْ شَدَّادٍ أَبِي عَمَّارٍ، عَنْ عَوْفِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ: أَنَا وَامْرَأَةٌ سَفْعَاءُ الْخَدَّيْنِ، امْرَأَةٌ آمَتْ مِنْ زَوْجِهَا فَصَبَرْتَ عَلَى وَلَدِهَا، كَهَاتَيْنِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu 'Asim related to us, from Nahhas ibn Qahm, from Shaddad Abu 'Ammar, from 'Awf ibn Malik, from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, who said: ‘I and a woman with darkened cheeks—a woman widowed by her husband and patient with her child—will be in the Garden like these two.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source describes the woman as سفعاء الخدين; this is rendered descriptively as ‘with darkened cheeks.’ The English witness omits this phrase.
عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ: أَنَا وَامْرَأَةٌ سَفْعَاءُ الْخَدَّيْنِ،
The phrase is retained descriptively; its precise connotation is not established by the supplied source package.
Should this epithet be rendered differently after lexical review?