Ali Baba, a poor woodcutter, happens to see and overhear a large band of thieves - forty in all - visiting their treasure store in the forest where he is cutting wood. The thieves' treasure is in a cave, the mouth of which is sealed by magic - it opens on the words "Open, Sesame", and seals itself on the words "Close, Sesame". When the thieves are gone, Ali Baba enters the cave himself, and takes some of the treasure home.

Ali Baba's rich brother, Kasim, finds out about his brother's unexpected wealth, and Ali Baba tells Kasim about the cave. Kasim goes to the cave to take more of the treasure, but forgets the magic words to get back out of the cave, and the thieves find him there, and kill him. When his brother does not come back, Ali Baba goes to the cave to look for him, and finds the body, bringing it home. With the help of Morgiana, a clever slave-girl in Kasim's household, they are able to give Kasim a proper burial without arousing any suspicions about his death.

The thieves, finding the body gone, realize that somebody else must know their secret, and set out to track him down. The first several times they are foiled by Morgiana, who is now a member of Ali Baba's household, but eventually they are able to ascertain the location of Ali Baba's house.

The lead thief pretends to be an oil merchant in need of Ali Baba's hospitality, bringing with him mules loaded with 40 oil jars, one filled with oil, the other 39 with the other thieves. Once Ali Baba is asleep, the thieves plan to kill him. Again, Morgiana discovers and foils the plan, killing the 39 thieves in their oil jars by pouring boiling oil on them. When their leader comes to rouse his men, he discovers that they are dead, and escapes.

The lead thief, disguised as a merchant, befriends Ali Baba's nephew (who is now in charge of the late Kasim's business), and is invited to dinner at Ali Baba's house. He is recognized by Morgiana, who performs a dance with a dagger for the diners and plunges it into the heart of the thief when he is off his guard. Thus, the story ends happily for everyone except the forty thieves and Ali Baba's brother.

Mustafa is a tailor lived in one of the large cities of China. Mustafa is a poor man. He, his only son Aladdin and wife are the family members. Aladdin is a lazy boy, his father has tried many times to give up his idle habits but failed. Mustafa died cause of illness, soon the family falls on great trouble. One day a stranger, magician meets him and tells Aladdin that he is uncle to him. The magician spends money for Aladdin and his mother and make them believed that he is the brother of Mustafa. Magician brings Aladdin with him in a cave and shows some magic, then gives him a magic ring. Magician asks him to enter into the cave and bring out a lamp from there. Aladdin realizes soon after the catching of the Lamp that the person is a fraud. He asks the magician firstly the magician should help him to come out from the cave as a reply to the magician asking to give him the Lamp. Then the magician closes the cave entrance by stones. A genie is come out from the ring and help Aladdin to get rescue. Aladdin discovers that a powerful genie is hidden in the Lamp. He gets lots of property through the genie. He marries the princess, the daughter of the Sultan. He has offered enormous rare precious things to the Sultan to marry the princess. He also builds a palace in front of the Sultan palace. All he has done through the genie from the lamp. Aladdin lives quite happily till one day when he goes for hunt in a nearby forest. The magician comes again and captures the lamp from Aladdin’s wife through trickery. The magician removes the palace to Africa. Sultan arrests Aladdin and asks that where his daughter is. Aladdin understands what might be happened. He rubs the magical ring and asks the genie to bring the palace, the genie replies that he can’t do that because the genie of the lamp is more powerful than him. Then Aladdin asks him to take him to the place where the palace and his wife are. The genie helps him, and then he has killed the magician with the help of his wife. He again captures the lamp and rubs it so that genie can come out. He demands the genie to return the palace to the place where it was. Now Aladdin and his family live happily.