There was no need.

Every one of those cloaked and muffled rascals had a notion of his own on the spur of the moment, and was eager to get it adopted.
"Allah!" said Ali Baba.

"Let us fight, then, with Abbas Mahommed, and plunder his harem instead! It is simple.

We come on his village before dawn when those sons of Egyptian mothers* are asleep.

We set fire to the thatch, and thereafter act as seems fit, slaying some and letting others escape!" -- --------- * To call any one an Egyptian is an Arab's notion of a perfect insult.
-- --------- _"Wallah!_ Let us ride straight through the village, set a light to it, and run," suggested Mujrim.