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Yazd: Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí
Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí was one of the Letters of the Living. He was also one of the three main amanuenses of the Báb (the other two being Mullá ‘Abdu’l-Karím-i-Qazviní and Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunúzí). An amanuensis is a secretary who writes and copies what is dictated. He is therefore sometimes known as Siyyid Husayn-i-Kátib of Yazdí [kátib means scribe] He was also known by the title Azíz [means dear or beloved].
Briefly, Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí first meets the Báb in 1844, when he becomes one of the Letters of the Living. He returns to Shíráz in the summer of 1846, after the Báb had returned from his pilgrimage (hajj). From then on, he, together with Mullá ‘Abdu’l-Karím and Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunúzí, becomes an amanuensis of the Báb. The Báb instructs all three of His amanuenses to go to Isfàhán and wait there for Him (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 9, p192-193).
During the Báb’s stay in Isfáhán, these three amanuenses were always close to Him and during the latter part of His stay, when the Báb was kept by the Mu’tamid in secret at the Mu’tamid’s residence, only these three knew His whereabouts (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 10, p212). As the time of the Báb in Isfáhán drew to a close, the Báb instructed Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí to go to Káshán and wait there for Him, which he did. He was therefore present at Hájí Mírzá Jání’s place and able to record the Báb’s revelation of verses there (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 11, p219).
After Káshán, Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí, his brother Siyyid Hasan, and the other two amanuenses, Mullá ‘Abdu’l-Karím and Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunúzí, join the Báb, at Kulayn, the village close by Tihrán (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 12, p227). The Báb was being held there, because the plan was for Him to be escorted to Tihrán to meet the Sháh. This did not happen, because of the machinations of the Grand Vazír Hájí Mírzá Áqásí, who dissuaded the Sháh. When the order of the Sháh was received sending the Báb to the prison of Máh-Kú, the Báb chose Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí and his brother Siyyid Hasan as His companions. Siyyid Hasan acted as the attendant and Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí as the secretary of the Báb from then on both in the prison of Máh-Kú and later in the prison of Chihríq. These two brothers were with the Báb when the news of the tragic events at Fort Shaykh Tabarsí reached Chihríq. Nabíl records that their father Siyyid Ahmad and their younger brother,