Comparing Sinbad's A Thousand And One Arabian Nights

I have read an excerpt called A Thousand and One Arabian Nights, which is a Persian work written by multiple anonymous Arab storytellers. The excerpt recounts the story of a character named Sinbad’s first merchant voyage, out of the seven total voyages he took. The story was written in a time where trade was booming and merchants in Iraq were especially fortunate being able to trade from the Indian Ocean and South China Sea. The story starts out with Sinbad talking about how he began the voyage, with him auctioning off the remainder of patrimony and setting off on a merchant vessel with what he had left. The crew later went ashore to what ended up being a whale’s back, and in a panic, the whale dove into the sea and Sinbad was left behind,