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T is related, amongst other anecdotes, that Hishâm-ibn-ʾAbd-el-Málik was engaged one day in hunting and sport. And he saw a gazelle being pursued by the dogs. And he followed it. And it passed round the hut of an Arab who was pasturing his flocks. So