King Sabut has a great love of science. Three wise men bring him et that will kill anyone who tries to take over, a peacock that sits in a basin of silver and cries, and an ebony horse that can take its rider anywhere. Sabut plans to give his three de, but one overhears and is unhappy at havingvenes and winds up mounting the ebony horse. However, he doesn't know how to come down, and disappears into the sky. The creator is thrown into jail.
Kamar eventually realizes how to come back down and lands on a , where he wanders until he meets the lovely Princess Shams al-Nahar. When discovered, hen the next day flees from the battlefir for the princess, but leaves her for a moment in his garden and she vanishes. He that the wise man who created the horse took her, and he is correct. The Sage Shams into climbing onto the horse with him and then flew to Greece with her, where theyams was taken to the palace.
Kamar arrives and hears that Shams is thought to be mad and the ebony horse is in the treasury. The sage has repented. Kamar goes to the palace and claims to be a man of medicine. He claims to need the horse and the princess, and then all three fly away. Back home, King Sabut has the horse destroyed, and everyone lives happily.