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made him realize that there was something special about the Báb. When he heard that a young Siyyid in Shíráz had announced that He was the Qá’im, Shaykh Hasan realized it must be the Báb. He came to Shíráz (summer of 1846 together with Shaykh Sultán-i-Karbilá’í), became a believer and also an amanuensis of the Báb from that point onwards [Dawn-Breakers Chapter 9, p189].

When Shaykh Hasan had been a disciple of Siyyid Kázim, that Siyyid had many a time remarked to him:

O Shaykh Hasan, rejoice that your name is Hasan [praiseworthy]; Hasan your beginning, and Hasan your end. You have been privileged to attain to the day of Shaykh Ahmad, you have been closely associated with me, and in the days to come yours shall be the inestimable joy of beholding “what eye hath seen not, ear heard not, nor any heart conceived.”

This prophecy was fulfilled by Shaykh Hasan’s meeting and recognition of the Báb. After he became an amanuensis of the Báb, he was blessed with in-person interaction with the Báb for long periods of time. From Shíráz, he is asked by the Báb to go to Isfáhán and wait for Him over there (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 9, p192). He is in Isfáhán throughout the Báb’s stay there, transcribing the Báb’s Writings in Isfáhán with the other two amanuenses; and they are the only ones who know the whereabouts of the Báb when He is being kept by the Mu’tamid (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 10, p212). He later joins the Báb at Kulayn, just outside Tihrán (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 12, 227); and then goes to Máh-Kú, where he stays for an extended period of time and acts both as a transcriber of the Báb’s Writings (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 2, p31) and the main link between the Báb and the

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