Portraits – Page 41 – Dawn Breakers

Sháh. At this time, Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí was handed over to the officers of the highest rank in the army who hacked him to pieces with their swords.

[Note: In 1852, besides Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí, Mullá ‘Abdu’l-Karím one of the other of the three main amanuenses of the Báb, was also imprisoned in the Siyah-Chal with Bahá’u’lláh. And like Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí, Mullá ‘Abdu’l-Karím was also taken and hacked to pieces by the royal bodyguard.]

Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí was the only one of the Letters of the Living who spent a lot of time as a companion of the Báb. He was the amanuensis of the Báb during most of the Báb’s travels and imprisonments and very trusted by Him. Nabíl notes (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 26, p629): “Such was his knowledge of the teachings of the Faith that the Báb, in a Tablet addressed to Mírzá Yahyá, urged the latter to seek enlightenment from him in whatever might pertain to the sacred Writings.”

A brief account of Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí’s life can be found here:

Bahaipedia: Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí

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