The Story of the Talking Tree
Badr was a good man who worked as a merchant in the town market, and he had an evil friend named Hammam. The two went out one day on a journey, and Badr found a bag of pure gold, so he said to his friend: We must take this to the judge to return it to its owner. But Hammam coveted the gold, so he said to his friend: I see that we bury the gold under the trunk of this tree for a few days. If anyone asks about it, we return it to its owner, and if no one asks, we hand it over to the judge. After they did that, Hammam went the next day and took the gold. ...