The most obvious being the terms Ayyuha 'l-Malik al-Sa'id (0 Felicitous King) and Qaala wa kayfa kaana dhaalik? (He said, and how was that?). In addition, there is in The Nights the same simplicity of diction, lucidity of unrhymed prose, similarity of aim and theme as well as the cynicism and repetition that Ibn al-Muqaffa' displays in his known work.[1][2]