ألف ليلة وليلة (Thousand and One Nights — 14th-15th century MS)

They mentioned, and God knows best about His hidden matters and is wisest regarding what has passed and preceded
And what was handed down from the stories of the nations, that there was in the ancient time, in the kingdom of the Bani Sassan Sassanids, in the islands of India and China, a king of the great brothers. One was called Shahryar and the younger was called Shah Zaman. The king Shah
also warrior not silent... with him fighting...

ryar was a powerful knight, a heroic champion. No fire could burn him, nor could any flame quench him.
He would not refrain from any vengeance. He possessed the furthest regions of the lands and the forelocks of the servants. The lands were submissive to him, and the servants obeyed him. His brother Shah Zaman possessed tulis

the lands of Samarkand a historic city in modern-day Uzbekistan and he made him sultan there. He remained there in happiness and goodness.
And he remained in this state for ten years. The king longed for his brother Shah Zaman
And sent his vizier after him. And the vizier had two daughters, one named Scheherazade the main storyteller
and the other Dunyazad her sister. He ordered him to reach him and come to him. The vizier prepared himself
And traveled for days and nights until he arrived at Samarkand. Shah Zaman heard of his arrival
To the lands of Samarkand, so he went out to meet him among a group of his entourage and honored him for the sake of God.
His support? and asked him for news of his brother the great king Shahryar. He informed him
That he was well and that he had sent him to seek him. He complied with his order and lodged him outside the city.
And he provided him with what he needed of provisions, accommodations, and fodder. He prepared tents for him.
He presented him with treasures, wealth, horses, and camels. He stayed for a day until he
prepared for the journey for ten days. He left his position in the kingdom to some of the chamberlains.
He went out at night and spent that night with the vizier in the middle of the night. He returned to the
city and arrived? at his palace to bid farewell to his wife. When he entered the palace, he found
his wife sleeping and the cook, her companion, on the kitchen mat, embracing her...
from the... When Shah Zaman saw them, the world blackened in his eyes and he shook his head
And said to himself: "This is while I am here, and what I have done, how I have traveled, and I am from the opening of
the city. How will it be if I travel to my brother? My brother, how will it be?"