Samak-e Ayyar

SAMAK-E ʿAYYĀR (Persian: سمک عیار‎) is an old and long Iranian folklore story from pre-Islamic Iran[1] that has been re-narrated generation after generation in a multitude of a communities throughout the Persian-speaking world, until it was written down in at least 12th century. The main story is about Khorshid shāh, son of Marzbān Shāh, the king of Aleppo. Khorshid shāh sees a beautiful girl in his dream and fell in love with her. Khorshid shāh soon finds that the girl is the daughter of feqfur (king) of Chine. Then he goes to Chine in order to marry him, where he becomes friend with Samak, the main protagonist of the story.