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He went up to the mountain and saw forty thieves. Ali baba's wife borrows a scale from cassim's wife to measure the gold before ali baba hides it, and the latter woman uses a trick (she puts wax on the scale to capture the gold) to determine what they are measuring. The leader said open sesame! and before ali baba's amazed eyes the sealed mouth of the cave magically opened and the men disappeared inside.
Ali baba and the forty thieves is one among many stories forming a sequence that lasted 1001 nights.
In the original story, these jars end up being the thieves' tombs; Alibaba and the forty thieves. She also singularly caused the death of all the forty thieves. His brother, cassim, married a wealthy woman and lived in the city.