Zunúz: Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunúzí
Besides Mullá Husayn, Quddús and Tâhirih, there were several other Bábís who, before 1852, recognized Bahá’u’lláh as the One promised by the Báb. Nabíl lists several of them (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 25, p593-594) and Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunúzí is one of them.
Shoghi Effendi records:
Some of His disciples the Báb assiduously prepared to expect the imminent Revelation [of Him Whom God shall make Manifest]. Others He orally assured would live to see its day. To Mullá Báqir, one of the Letters of the Living, He actually prophesied, in a Tablet addressed to him, that he would meet the Promised One face to face. To Sayyáh, another disciple, He gave verbally a similar assurance. Mullá Husayn He directed to Tihrán, assuring him that in that city was enshrined a Mystery Whose light neither Hijáz nor Shíráz could rival. Quddús, on the eve of his final separation from Him, was promised that he would attain the presence of the One Who was the sole Object of their adoration and love. To Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunúzí He declared while in Máh-Kú that he would behold in Karbilá the countenance of the promised Husayn. On Dayyán He conferred the title of “the third Letter to believe in Him Whom God shall make manifest,” while to ‘Azím He divulged, in the Kitáb-i-Panj-Sha‘n, the name, and announced the approaching advent, of Him Who was to consummate His own Revelation. 41PORT
Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunúzí was a follower of Siyyid Kázim and became a believer in the Báb when he met the Báb in Shíráz in the summer of 1846. He became one of the three main amanuenses of the Báb (the other two being Mullá ‘Abdu’l-Karím-i-Qazviní and Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí). His story is briefly told below:
Shaykh Hasan was from Zunúz [nowadays written as Zonuz], a town about 100 km [about 60 miles] northwest of Tabríz. Shaykh Hasan -i-Zunúzí had become a disciple of Siyyid Kázim and was part of the inner circle of trusted disciples. He was in Karbalá’ with Siyyid Kázim, when the Báb visited [Dawn-Breakers Chapter 2, p25-27]. That meeting with the Báb and the few other times he saw the Báb in Karbalá’ had
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