• Among those Ṭáhirih meets in Bag̲h̲dád is Ḥakím Masíḥ, a Jewish doctor who years later becomes the first Bahá'í of Jewish background. [B165]
• Ṭáhirih is sent back to Persia by Najíb Pás̲h̲á. She is accompanied by a number of Bábís; they make a number of stops along the way, enrolling supporters for the Cause of the Báb. [B163-4; BBRSM216]
• Ma'ani says Ṭáhirih left Bag̲h̲dád early in 1847.
• In Kirand 1,200 people are reported to have volunteered to follow her. [B164; DB272; TN20]
• B164 says the number is 12,000; DB272 says it was 1,200.
• In Kirmáns̲h̲áh she is respectfully received by the `ulamá. [B164; DB272]
• Ṭáhirih arrives in Hamadán. Her father has sent her brothers here to persuade her to return to her native city of Qazvín. She agrees on condition that she may remain in Hamadán long enough to tell people about the Báb. [B165; DB273]
• MF180 says Ṭáhirih remained in Hamadán for two months.

• Had He and Bahá'u'lláh met secretly?

Some accounts maintain that the prime minister intervened in the correspondence between the Báb and the S̲h̲áh. En route to Tabríz the Báb writes to various people, including the Grand Vizier, the father and uncle of Ṭáhirih, and Ḥájí Sulaymán K̲h̲án. Ḥujjat learns of this last letter and sends a message to the Bábís of Zanján to rescue the Báb. The Báb declines their assistance. [B124-5; DB235-6]

• See B126 for an account of the Báb's demonstration to His guards that He could have escaped had He so wished.

• See MH96 for information on Munírih, future wife of `Abdu'l-Bahá.
• See CH84 for her account of a dream she had as a young child.
• She was first cousin to the King of Martyrs and the Beloved of Martyrs. [CH86]

• See B128, BBD142 and DB243-4 for descriptions of Máh-Kú, its environs, fortress and inhabitants.

At the beginning of the Báb's incarceration the warden `Alí K̲h̲án keeps the Báb strictly confined and allows no visitors. He has a vision of the Báb engaged in prayer outside of the prison gates, knowing that the Báb is inside. He becomes humble and permits the Bábís to visit the Báb. [B129-31; DB245-8]

The winter the Báb spends in Máh-Kú is exceptionally cold. [DB252]

Many of the Báb's writings are revealed in this period. [GPB24-5]

• It was probably at this time that He addressed all the divines in Persia and Najaf and Karbalá, detailing the errors committed by each one of them. [GPB24]
• He revealed nine commentaries on the whole of the Qur'an, the fate of which is unknown. [GPB24]
• He revealed the Persian Bayán, containing the laws and precepts of the new Revelation in some 8,000 verses. It is primarily a eulogy of the Promised One. [BBD44-5; BBRSM32; BW12:91 GPB24-5]
• The Báb began the composition of the `smaller and less weighty' Arabic Bayán. [B132; BBD45; GPB25]
• He stated in the Bayán that, to date, He had revealed some 500,000 verses, 100,000 of which had been circulated. [BBRSM32, GPB22]
• In the Dalá'il-i-Sab'ih (Seven Proofs) the Báb assigned blame to the seven powerful sovereigns then ruling the world and censured the conduct of the Christian divines who, had they recognized Muḥammad, would have been followed by the greater part of their co-religionists. [BBD63; BW12:96; GPB26]
• The Báb wrote His `most detailed and illuminating' Tablet to Muḥammad S̲h̲áh. [GPB26]

Arrived in Qazvín, Ṭáhirih refuses her estranged husband's attempts at reconciliation and lives with her father. Her father-in-law Ḥájí Mullá Taqí, feels insulted and denounces the S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ís and Bábís. [B166; DB2736]

• As an act of piety, he makes the whole 1,200-mile journey on foot. Along the route he visits the Bábís and in Ṭihrán meets secretly with Bahá'u'lláh. No account of their interview survives. In Qazvín, Mullá Ḥusayn meets Ṭáhirih for the first time. [DB255; MH137]

• Mullá `Abdu'lláh indicates that he was `never a convinced Bábí'. [DB276]
• BBRSM22 says the murder took place towards the end of October.

Mullá `Abdu'lláh confesses to the murder of Ḥájí Mullá Muḥammad Taqí and is helped to escape. [BKG41-2; DB278]

• See BKG42 for why Bahá'u'lláh was thought to have engineered his escape. Bahá'u'lláh is imprisoned for a few days for having assisted in Mullá `Abdu'lláh's escape.
• This was Bahá'u'lláh's first imprisonment. [BKG41; BW18:380; DB585]
• S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Ṣáliḥ-i-Karímí, one of the imprisoned Bábís, is publicly executed in Ṭihrán.
• He is the first to suffer martyrdom on Persian soil. His remains are interred in the courtyard of the shrine of the Imám-Zádih Zayd in Ṭihrán. [B166; BW18:380; DB280]
• The remaining captives are returned to Qazvín. Ḥájí Asadu'lláh-i-Farhádí is secretly put to death in prison. Mullá Táhir-i-S̲h̲írází and Mullá Ibrahím-i-Maballátí are also put to death. [B166; BW18:380; DB280-3]
• DB280-3 says `the rest of' the detainees were put to death by the relatives of Ḥájí Mullá Muḥammad Taqí.

• While she is in Bahá'u'lláh's home she is visited by Vaḥíd and challenges him by saying `Let deeds, not words, be our adorning!' [DB285; MF200]
• After a few days Bahá'u'lláh sends Ṭáhirih to a place of safety before sending her on to K̲h̲urásán. [DB286-7; GPB68]
• Note: Ma'ani says this was the house of Mírzá Áqá K̲h̲án-i Núrí, who was then living in Kás̲h̲án as an exile. His sister acted as Ṭáhirih's hostess until she left for Badas̲h̲t.

• MH137 says Mullá Ḥusayn arrived in Tabríz on 21 March.
• See DB255-7 for story of the dream of `Alí K̲h̲án, the prison warden, preceding the arrival of Mullá Ḥusayn at Máh-Kú. From this time on the pilgrims are allowed unrestricted access to the Báb. [DB258]
• The warden requests that the Báb marry his daughter. [DB259; MH143]