Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Qais narrates that a woman says: I was with Ummul Momineen Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) when a woman came with her jewelry and said, "I have brought this as a gift for the House of Allah." Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said to her: "If you had given it in the way of Allah to orphans and the needy, (that would have been better). Surely, for this House, spending and gifts are given from the treasures of Allah."