Informing Others About Charity

Question
What is the ruling if a person donates a large charity, such as a shelter for displaced people, and keeps this charity hidden in order to receive the reward for hidden charity, but after a long time the donor informs her husband out of her joy regarding this charity, and the charity was from her own money? Does this diminish her reward because she informed her husband about it?
Answer
I say, and with God's help: The reward is diminished if the person intends to show off, and it seems that this is not the case in the mentioned situation, and God knows best.
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