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Some companions are chained and survivors sold as slaves
Some of the companions believed the Prince’s attendants and set out with them, although many did not. Once the companions who had set out were separated from the main group of companions, they were made prisoners and taken away in chains. Those who survived were eventually sold as slaves. But even this was guided by Divine Providence, because these companions were destined to be the few survivors of Fort Shaykh Tabarsí, who will transmit to the world the tale of what happened at that historic episode. 88_ACT9
Some companions are killed right away
Having got some of the companions away from the main group and imprisoned them, the Prince’s attendants wanted to get the rest. They turned their attention to Mullá Yúsuf-i-Ardibílí who had a short while earlier been sent by Quddús as one of his representatives to the Prince and was now held prisoner. 89_ACT9 They told him he should return and inform the remainder of the companions that Quddús had asked they immediately disarm. As they pressured Mullá Yúsuf on their way, they asked him: “What is it that you will tell them exactly?”. Mullá Yúsuf calmly responded: “I will warn them that whatever be henceforth the nature of the message you choose to deliver to them on behalf of their leader, that message is naught but downright falsehood.” The attendants were enraged and put him mercilessly to death right away.90_ACT9
The remaining companions left behind are killed
The Prince’s soldiers now encompassed the remaining companions who had not gone to the Prince’s headquarters and opened fire upon them. Those who escaped the bullets were killed by the swords of the officers and spears of their men. One historian further records:
They [the soldiers] formed them [the companions] in a line and made sport of cutting open their stomachs. This amused them the more because, from the perforated intestines, issued grass still undigested, striking evidence of
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