Narrated Maimuna, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ that she manumitted her slave-girl and the Prophet ﷺ said to her, "You would have got more reward if you had given the slave-girl to one of your maternal uncles."  

إِنَّ مَيْمُونَةَ زَوْجَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَعْتَقَتْ وَلِيدَةً لَهَا فَقَالَ لَهَا: «وَلَوْ وَصَلْتِ بَعْضَ أَخْوَالِكِ كَانَ أَعْظَمَ لأَجْرِكِ۔»  

I said, "O Messenger of Allah ﷺ! I have two neighbors; which of them should I give a gift to?" The Prophet ﷺ said, "(Give) to the one whose door is nearer to you."  

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ لِي جَارَيْنِ فَإِلَى أَيِّهِمَا أُهْدِي قَالَ إِلَى أَقْرَبِهِمَا مِنْكِ بَابًا