Hadith Dhulqarnayn

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The Hadīth Dhī ʾl-Qarnayn (or Hadith Dhulqarnayn), also known as the Leyenda de Alejandro, is an anonymous Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great (whom it identifies as Dhu al-Qarnayn, a figure known from the eighteenth chapter of the Quran). It dates to the 15th century.{{Cite book |last=Casari |first=Mario |title=Persian narrative poetry in the classical era, 800-1500: romantic and didactic genres |date=2023 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn=978-1-78673-664-2 |editor-last=Ashtiany |editor-first=Mohsen |series=A history of Persian literature / founding editor - Ehsan Yarshater |location=London New York Oxford New Delhi Sydney |pages=500 |chapter=The Alexander Legend in Persian Literature}}

As with other Arabic Alexander legends in the tradition of the Alexander Romance literature, the story describes Alexander's journeys across the world (such as an encounter with the king of China), his relationship with the mystical prophet Khidr, and the piety of the main character, Alexander.{{Cite book |last=Zuwiyya |first=Zachary David |title=A companion to Alexander literature in the Middle Ages |date=2011 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-18345-2 |editor-last=Zuwiyya |editor-first=David |series=Brill's companions to the Christian tradition |location=Leiden Boston |publication-date=2011 |pages=79–82 |chapter=The Alexander Romance in the Arabic Tradition}}

It is closely related to the Sīrat al-Iskandar, including in how both texts interpolate from the Syriac Alexander Legend,{{Cite book |last=Gaullier-Bougassas |first=Catherine |title=Literature: A World History, Volumes 1-4 |last2=Doufikar-Aerts |first2=Faustina |date=2022 |publisher=Wiley |pages=534–535 |chapter=Alexander the Great in Medieval Literature}} such as in how it describes the construction of the Gates of Alexander designed to keep out and confine Gog and Magog.{{Cite book |last=Donzel |first=Emeri Johannes van |title=Gog and Magog in early syriac and islamic sources: Sallam's quest for Alexander's wall |last2=Schmidt |first2=Andrea Barbara |last3=Ott |first3=Claudia |date=2009 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-17416-0 |series=Brill's Inner Asian Library |location=Leiden |pages=115–116}} The text identifies Gog and Magog with the Khazars, a semi-nomadic Turkic ethnic group.{{Cite book |last=Alemany |first=Agusti |title=Gog and Magog: contributions toward a world history of an apocalyptic motif |date=2023 |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=9783110720150 |editor-last=Tamer |editor-first=Georges |series=Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - tension, transmission, transformation |location=Berlin Boston |pages=45–46 |chapter=Beyond the Wall: Eurasian Steppe Nomads in the Gog and Magog Motif |editor-last2=Mein |editor-first2=Andrew |editor-last3=Greisiger |editor-first3=Lutz}}