For this his father loved him with love so great none could be greater, and made him heir to the kingdom after himself. This mighty monarch had a son yclept Sharrkan, who was likest of all men to his father and who proved himself one of the prodigies of his time for subduing the brave and bringing his contemporaries to bane and ban. He sent envoys and ambassadors to capitals the most remote, to provide him with true report and they would bring back tidings of justice and peace, with assurance of loyalty and obedience and of prayers in the pulpits for King Omar bin al-Nu‘uman for he was, O Ruler of the Age, a right noble King and there came to him presents of rarities and toll and tribute from all lands of his governing. Moreover, he reigned supreme over the north country and Diyár Bakr, or Mesopotamia, and over Sudán, the Eastern Negro land and the Islands of the Ocean, and all the far famed rivers of the earth, Sayhún and Jayhún, Nile and Euphrates. East and West had come under his command with whatsoever regions lay interspersed between them, Hind and Sind and Sin, the Holy Land, Al-Hijaz, the rich mountains of Al-Yaman and the archipelagos of India and China. He had made himself King over all quarters, and Allah had subjected to him all His creatures his word went forth to all great cities and his hosts had harried the farthest lands. The King asked her, "And what was their story?" and she answered: It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that there was in the City of Safety, Baghdad, before the Caliphate of Abd al-Malik bin Marwán, a King, Omar bin al-Nu‘umán highs, who was of the mighty giants and had subjected the Chosroës of Persia and the Kaysars of Eastern Rome for none could warm himself at his fire nor could any avail to meet him in the field of foray and fray and, when he was angered, there came forth from his nostrils sparks of flame. Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu‘uman and His Sons Sharrkan and Zau Al-MakanĪnd What Befel Them of Things Seld-Seen and Peregrine.
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