So the Sultan commanded the skin to be brought, and then he called for
the oil merchant to bring forth his two bottles of oil.
When he compared the oil in the skin with that in the bottles he found
that it was like that of the lighter colour.
So the Sultan said to the man, "How is this now, that if you received
this three years ago and have not opened it since, that the oil in the
skin is oil of this year?"
Then was the man exceedingly afraid, and he trembled, for he knew that
he had put fresh oil in the skin.
So the Sultan sent soldiers to his house, who found there the dinars he
had secreted away, and they were restored to their owner.
Then the Sultan turned to the oil merchant and asked him, "Now is this
man truly as he says a poor man?"
So the oil merchant replied, "Yes, truly, my master, he is a very poor
man, and I wish to do him no harm."