Sahih Bukhari, Chapter: Gifts, The superiority of giving and extortion of

the freed slave of Ibn Abbas, that Maimuna bint Al-Harith told him that she manumitted a slave-girl without taking the permission of the Prophet (SAW). On the day when it was her turn to be with the Prophet (SAW), she said, "Do you know, O Allah's Apostle (SAW), that I have manumitted my slave-girl?" He said, "Have you really?" She replied in the affirmative. He said, "You would have got more reward if you had given her (i.e. the slave-girl) to one of your maternal uncles."