|
[ 24 Articles ] |
• c. 1 / 2 B.E.
• c. A.H. 1260 / 1262
• c. A.D. 1845
• c. A.M. 5605 / 5606 |
Birth of Mírzá 'Alí-Muḥammad-i-K̲h̲urásání, later known as Ibn-i-Aṣdaq, Hand of the Cause. |
 |
|
• c. 'Idál 6 Jalál 2 B.E.
• c. Yawm al-Arba'ā' 8 Rabī' ath-thānī
A.H. 1261
• c. Wednesday 16 April A.D. 1845
• c. Yom Reviʻi 9 Nisan A.M. 5605 |
Mullá 'Alíy-i-Basṭámí is removed from his prison cell in Bag̲h̲dád and taken to Istanbul, where he is sentenced to hard labour in the imperial naval dockyard. |
|
|
• Jalál / Jamál 2 B.E.
• Rabī' ath-thānī / 8 Jumādá al-ūlá
A.H. 1261
• Late April / Early May A.D. 1845
• Nissan / Iyar A.M. 5605 |
The Báb returns to Bús̲h̲ihr. He sends Quddús to S̲h̲íráz with a letter addressed to His uncle Ḥájí Mírzá Siyyid 'Alí who
embraces his Nephew's Cause, the first, after the Letters of the Living,
to do so. The Báb also entrusts Quddús with a treatise for him entitled d̲h̲asá'il-i-Sab'ih ('the Seven Qualifications') and promises him
his impending martyrdom. (He gave his life as one of the Seven Martyrs of
Tehran, see 1850 19 or 20 Feb.) [B77-8; DB142-3; MS2]
- B77 and GPB10 say the Báb arrived in Bús̲h̲ihr in February - March.
- SSBH1p23 and BBRSM216 say 15 May, 1845.
- Before leaving on pilgrimage the Báb had stated that He would
return to Karbalá and asked His followers to congregate there. An
explanation in part for the large following that have gathered there is
the messianic expectation associated with the year 1261, a thousand
years after the Twelfth Imám's disappearance in 260 A.H.. This gathering
is perceived as a threat by the authorities. [BBRSM15, 45, 216; DB157-8; SBBH1p23, 32]
- The Báb changes His plan to meet His followers in Karbalá and
instructs them to go to Iṣfahán instead. A number abandon Him, regarding
this as badá', 'alteration of divine will'. [BBRSM16; DB158; MH125; SBBH23]
- Some speculate that He did not go to Karbalá to avoid conflict and
sedition. Many Bábís had gone to Karbalá armed in preparation for holy
war, 'jihád'. [BBRSM21-2; SBBH1:23]
|
|
|
• 'Aẓamat / Ráḥmat 2 B.E.
• Jumādá al-ūlá /
Jumādá al-ākhirah A.H. 1261
• June A.D. 1845
• Iyar / Sivan A.M.5605 |
Quddús meets Mullá Ṣádiq-i-Muqaddas in S̲h̲íráz.
Mullá Ṣádiq, following instructions received in a Tablet from the Báb,
sounds the call to prayer using the additional words provided by the
Báb. [B78; DB144]
|
|
|
• Kamál 19 Núr 2 B.E.
• Yawm al-Ithnayn 17 Jumādá al-ākhirah
A.H. 1261
• Monday 23 June A.D. 1845
• Yom Sheni 18 Sivan A.M. 5605 |
The governor of Fárs, Ḥusayn K̲h̲án, has Quddús, Mullá Ṣádiq-i-K̲h̲urásání, Mullá 'Alí-Akbar-i-Ardistání and Mullá Abú-Ṭálib arrested, tortured and expelled from S̲h̲íráz. [B78; BBR69; BW18:380; DB145-8; GPB11, BBR1pxxviii]
- Note: B78 says that Mullá Abú-Ṭálib was not among the group.
- Note: DB146 note2 says "According to A. L. M. Nicolas' "Siyyid
'Alí-Muḥammad dit le Báb" (footnote 175, p. 225), this meeting took
place on August 6, 1845 A.D."
- The London Times of November 1st and November 19, 1845 reports that this took place on the 23rd of June. [B76, BBR1p69,82]
- The governor of Fárs, Ḥasayn K̲h̲án orders that the Báb be arrested and brought to S̲h̲íráz. [B84; BW18:380; DB148-50; GPB11]
- The Báb leaves Bús̲h̲ihr for S̲h̲íráz on an unknown date. [B 105]
|
|
|
• Jalál 5 Ráḥmat 2 B.E.
• Yawm as-Sabt 22 Jumādá al-ākhirah
A.H. 1261
• Saturday 28 June A.D. 1845
• Yom Shabbat 22 Sivan A.M. 5605 |
Prince Dolgorukov is appointed
Russian ambassador to Ṭihrán. He was previously first secretary of the
Russian legation at Istanbul. He arrives in Ṭihrán in January 1846. |
|
|
• Kamál 7 Ráḥmat 2 B.E.
• Yawm al-Ithnayn 24 Jumādá al-ākhirah
A.H.1261
• Monday 30 June A.D. 1845
• Yom Sheni 24 Sivan A.M. 5605 |
The Báb meets the soldiers of the
governor of Fárs who had been sent to arrest Him at Dálakí, some 40
miles northeast of the city. He is escorted to S̲h̲íráz. [B84, 105; BBR170; BBRSM216; DB148-9; GPB11; TN6, SBBH1pxxv111]
- DB150 says the Báb travelled 'free and unfettered', 'before His escort'.
- BBRSM16 implies the Báb returned to S̲h̲íráz by Himself in July and that He was placed under house arrest on arrival.
|
|
|
• Kamál 14 Ráḥmat 2 B.E.
• Yawm al-Ithnayn 2 Rajab A.H. 1261
• Monday 7 July A.D. 1845
• Yom Sheni 2 Tammuz A.M. 5605 |
The Báb arrives in S̲h̲íráz.
- Note: Other estimates for the time of His arrival in S̲h̲íráz are from about the 8th to 16th of August based on the fact that Ḥusayn K̲h̲án
ordered His arrest after the beating of Mullá Ṣádiq and Quddús.
"According to A. L. M. Nicolas' "Siyyid 'Alí-Muḥammad dit le Báb"
(footnote 175, p. 225), this meeting took place on August 6, 1845 A.D."
[DB146n2]
- Note: DB155 states that after He was released and "regained His
home" He was able to celebrate Naw-Rúz that fell on 10 Rabí'u'l-Avval,
1261 (19 March, 1845). This is an error.
- GPB11 says He was able to
"celebrate the Naw-Rúz of that and the succeeding year in an atmosphere
of relative tranquillity in the company of His mother, His wife and His
uncle.'' This too appears to be in error. If He left S̲h̲íráz in September of 1846 He would not have been present In March of 1847.
- Three of the divines of S̲h̲íráz passed a verdict of death upon The Báb. But for the intercession of Zahrá Bagum, the sister of the wife of The Báb, Khadíjih-Bagum, the mother of The Báb, Fáṭimih Bagum, and others, with the Imám-Jum'ih of S̲h̲íráz, the Báb would have been executed. [LTDT12]
|
|
|
• c. Kamál 14 Ráḥmat 2 B.E.
• c. Yawm al-Ithnayn 2 Rajab A.H. 1261
• c. Monday 7 July A.D. 1845
• c. Yom Sheni 2 Tammuz A.M. 5605 |
The Báb is publicly interrogated, struck in the face and later released into the custody of His maternal uncle Haji Mirza Siyyid 'Ali. [B85-9; BBRSM216; DB150-1; GPB11]
|
|
|
• Ráḥmat and the months
following 2 B.E.
• Jumādá al-ākhirah and the months
following A.H. 1261
• July and the months following A.D. 1845
• Sivan and the months following
A.M. 5605 |
The Báb is told to attend a Friday
gathering at the Mosque of Vakíl to appease the hostility and the
curiosity of some of the residents of S̲h̲íráz and to clarify His
position. The exact date of His attendance is unknown. He makes a public
pronouncement that He is neither the representative of the Hidden Imám nor the gate to him, that is, His station is higher. [B94-8; DB151-7]
- see DB152 for pictures of the above mosque.
|
|
|
| |
Upon hearing the news of the confinement of the Báb, Mullá Ḥusayn and his companions leave Iṣfahán where they have been awaiting further
instructions and travel to S̲h̲íráz. Mullá Ḥusayn is able to meet
secretly with the Báb several times in the house of His uncle. The Báb
sends word to the remainder of His followers in Iṣfahán to leave and
travel to S̲h̲íráz. [B102-3; MH128-9] |
|
|
| |
After a time the presence of Mullá Ḥusayn in S̲h̲íráz threatens to cause civil unrest. The Báb instructs him to go to K̲h̲urásán via Yazd and Kirmán and tells the rest of the companions to return to Iṣfahán. [B90, 102-3; DB170; MH130]
- This time, described as the 'most fecund period' of the Báb's ministry, marks the birth of the Bábí community. [B89-90]
|
|
|
| |
The S̲h̲áh sends one of the most learned men in Persia, Siyyid
Yaḥyáy-i-Dárábí, surnamed Vaḥíd, to investigate the claims of the Báb.
He becomes a follower of the Báb. As a result of his conversion most of
the inhabitants of the town of Nayríz later become Bábís. [B90-4; BBD216; BBRSM41; CH21; DB171-7; GPB11-12; TN7-8] |
|
|
| |
Another learned scholar, Muḥammad-'Alíy-i-Zanjání, surnamed Ḥujjat,
becomes a believer after reading only one page of the Qayyúmu'l-Asmá'.
Several thousand of his fellow townspeople become Bábís. [B100-2; BBD111; BBRSM16; GPB12] |
|
|
| |
Mírzá Ahmad-i-Azg̲h̲andí, yet another learned man, who had
compiled traditions and prophecies concerning the expected Revelation,
becomes a believer as well. [GPB12-13] |
|
|
| |
In Karbalá Ṭáhirih revives the remnant of the Bábí community there. She is considered a part of the radical element of S̲h̲ayk̲h̲í Bábís because she believes that the S̲h̲ayk̲h̲í tradition has been abrogated by the new Revelation. The new Bábí movement causes the S̲h̲ayk̲h̲í
leaders to unite in their opposition to the Báb and to redefine the
nature of the school, toning down its more controversial teachings and
moving back towards mainstream S̲h̲í'ísm. [BBRSM16-18] |
|
|
| |
In Kirmán, Karím K̲h̲án, the leading S̲h̲ayk̲h̲í cleric, has a number of Bábís expelled from the city and writes a number of refutations of the Báb. The first, Is̲h̲áqu'l-Bátil (The Crushing of Falsehood) is published in July. This causes some Bábís to dissociate themselves from S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ism. [BBRSM17-18] |
|
|
• Jalál 17 'Ilm 2 B.E.
• Yawm as-Sabt 1 Dhū al-Qa'dah
A.H.1261
• Saturday 1 November A.D. 1845
• Yom Shabbat 1 Cheshvan A.M. 5606 |
The Times of London carries an item on the arrest and torture of Quddús, Mullá Ṣádiq-i-K̲h̲urásání, Mullá 'Alí-Akbar-i-Ardistání and Mullá Abú-Tálib in S̲h̲íráz in June. This is the first known printed reference to the Revelation. A
similar article is reprinted on 19 November. [B76-7; BBR4, 69] |
|
|
• Fidál 19 Masá'il 2 B.E.
• Yawm ath-Thulāthā' 1 Muḥarram
A.H. 1262
• Tuesday 30 December A.D. 1845
• Yom Shlishi 1 Teveth A.M. 5606 |
The Báb's birthday falls on the
first day of the mourning observance for the Imám Ḥusayn. Ṭáhirih, who
is in Karbalá with the widow of Siyyid Kázim-i-Ras̲h̲tí, instructs
her relatives and the Bábís to dress in bright clothing and joyously
celebrate the Báb's birth. This causes a considerable disturbance, even
among the Bábís. Ṭáhirih is arrested and expelled from the city. [RR305,
SA217] |
|
|
• In the year 2 / 3 B.E.
• In the year A.H. 1262 / 1263
• In the year A.D. 1846
• in the year A.M. 5606 / 5607 |
The birth of Bahíyyih K̲h̲ánum,
the Greatest Holy Leaf, eldest daughter of Bahá'u'lláh and Navváb, and
sister of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, in Ṭihrán. She is later designated by Shoghi
Effendi 'the outstanding heroine of the Bahá'í Dispensation'. [BBD42;
GPB108]
- For a description of her nature see BK42-3.
|
|
|
| |
Many Bábís go to S̲h̲íráz and meet the Báb. [B 103] |
|
|
| |
Ṭáhirih is sent back to Bag̲h̲dád from Karbalá. She is lodged first in the house of S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Muḥammad S̲h̲íbl and then in the house of the Muftí of Bag̲h̲dád.
During her time in Iraq she enlists a considerable number of followers
and makes a number of enemies among the clergy [B162; DB271] |
|
|
• Sharaf / Sulṭán 2 B.E.
• Muḥarram A.H. 1262
• January A.D. 1846
• Teveth A.M. 5606 |
Prince Dolgorukov arrives in Ṭihrán as the Russian ambassador. |
|
|
• c. Sulṭán 2 / Bahá 3 B.E.
• c. Ṣafar / Rabī' al-awwal A.H. 1262
• c. February / March A.D. 1846
• c. Shevat / Adar A.M. 5606 |
The S̲h̲áh had already instructed Manúc̲h̲ihr K̲h̲án
to send the Báb to Ṭihrán. The governor, fearing for the safety of the
Báb, devises a scheme to have the Báb escorted from Iṣfahán but returned
secretly to his own residence. The Báb remains there for four months
with only three of His followers apprised of His whereabouts. These four
months are described as having been the calmest in His Ministry.
[B113-16; DB209-11, 213; TN9-11]
The governor offers all of his resources to try to win the S̲h̲áh
over to His Cause but the Báb declines his offer saying that the Cause
will triumph through the 'poor and lowly'. [B115-16; DB212-13] |
| |
|
