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“Lady Maimunah, may Allah be pleased with her, freed a bonded servant without asking the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, When if was time for him to visit her she said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, do you know that I have freed my bonded servant?" He asked, ‘Indeed?’ She replied, ‘Yes.’ Then he told her, ‘Had you given her to your maternal uncles it would have been better still.’"

Bukhari and Muslim with a chain up to Lady Maimunah wife of the Prophet, may Allah be pleased with her, Mother of Believers, the daughter of Harith related this.