'A’isha said that when she told God’s messenger she had two neighbours and asked to which of them she should send a present, he replied,
“To the one who lives nearer you.”
Abu Huraira asked God’s messenger what kind of sadaqa was most excellent and he replied,
“What a man with little property can afford to give; and begin with those for whom you are responsible.”
Maimuna daughter of al-Harith told that she set free a girl in the time of God’s messenger, and when she mentioned that to him he said,
“If you had given her to your maternal uncles it would have increased your reward.”
