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The contrast which existed between judicial practice, which had to take account of the customary law of Al-Madinah, and the requirements of Hadith, finds expression in a conversation which 'Abdullah held with his brother Muhammad, the J udge4• " When he had come to a decision which stood in contradiction to Hadith, after his return home his brother-he was a pious man-would say to him:' 0 my brother, thou hast to-day given such and such a judgment in such and such a case.
a Kitabu'l• Maghazi ; probably this book, of which no trace seems to remain, consistedof the collected material which he had acquired from his uncle, just as a brother of this 'Abdul Malik, 'Abdur Rahman, often in \Vaqidi transmits reports of his uncle2• The statements of 'Abdullah are not confined to the Maghazi in the narrower sense of the word, he is concerned also with the youth and early years of the Prophet; but his name appears most often in reports concerning the Maghazi properly so-called, and he also devoted his attention.
As Ibn Sa' d , informs us3, A'asim "repaired to the court of 'Umar ibn Abdul Aziz, who paid his debts, assigned to him a stipend and ordered him to sit regularly in the mosque of Damascus and tell the people of the Prophet's campaigns (Maghazi) and the famous deeds of his Companions ; which he did.