The Forty Thieves were a group of bandits led by their chief Cassim and his second-in-command, Sa'Luk, where they stole lots of beautiful treasure given as gifts for Aladdin and Jasmine during the wedding. When Aladdin first discovered the Genie, Genie briefly told him of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and conjured up magical recreations of a few of the Forty Thieves to battle Aladdin which Genie then easily disposed of to prove to Aladdin just how powerful he is with his own genie. Magical recreation of the old Forty Thieves. It was either before or around the time of the Forty Thieves that a ship that contained the legendary Hand of Midas sank in the waterways of the hideout of the Forty Thieves and a mural explaining the secrets of the Hand were carved within the deepest chambers of the hideout by an unknown individual or group, although whether the Forty Thieves or Ali Baba had anything to do with this remains unknown.Ĭenturies later, the old hideout of the Forty Thieves was discovered by a man named Cassim who would end up becoming the King of Thieves after making his own successor to the Forty Thieves out of former cutthroats and enforced a solemn rule, for them to never harm the innocents they steal from.

Despite their notoriety, they were fought and presumably defeated by the legendary Ali Baba, and the tale of him and the Forty Thieves would later be magically preserved in story by the queen Scheherazade. An earlier incarnation of the Forty Thieves existed centuries ago who dwelled within their ancient hideout that could only be accessed by uttering the magic words 'Open Sesame'.

Forty thieves old version