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Updated: June 24, 2025

'At the make of yonder boy Aslan, replied Ed Denef; 'for he is the likest of all creatures to Alaeddin Abou esh Shamat. Then he called Aslan and said to him, 'What is thy mother's name? 'She is called the damsel Jessamine, answered Aslan; and Ed Denef said, 'Harkye, Aslan, take heart and be of good cheer, for thy father was none other than Alaeddin Abou esh Shamat: but, O my son, go thou in to thy mother and question her of thy father. 'I hear and obey, answered he, and going in to his mother, said to her, 'Who is my father? Quoth she, 'The Amir Khalid is thy father. 'Not so, rejoined he, 'my father was none other than Alaeddin Abou esh Shamat. At this, she wept and said, 'Who told thee this? 'Ahmed ed Denef, the Captain of the Guard, answered he; so she told him the whole story, saying, 'O my son, the truth can no longer be hidden: know that Alaeddin was indeed thy father, but it was the Amir Khalid who reared thee and adopted thee as his son.

Anonymous - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III