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martyred with his Master, but the Báb had asked him to recant so that he could survive and take the Báb’s last words and wishes to His followers.18_ACT16 After the martyrdom of the Báb, Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí had come to Tihrán and been imprisoned in the Síyáh-Chál. Frequently the officials tried to induce him to recant, but he refused in spite of his arduous imprisonment. His last days of his long imprisonment in that dungeon were however blissful, as they were spent in the company of Bahá’u’lláh. At the end, he was handed over to the officers of the highest rank in the army who hacked him to pieces.19_ACT16 [Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdí’s father and younger brother had already been martyred at Tabarsí; DB 19-20 Part B, Section 3]. 20_ACT16
The second amanuensis of the Báb who was martyred in this period was Mullá ‘Abdu’l-Karim-i-Qazvíní.21_ACT16 Mullá ‘Abdu’l-Karim was named Mírzá Ahmad by Bahá’u’lláh.22_ACT16 Nabíl met him in Tihrán shortly after Nabíl became a Bábí. They became close life-long friends. Nabíl says of his friend: “I found him [to be] the very incarnation of love and kindness”.23_ACT16 Mullá ‘Abdu’l-Karim was given to the artillery soldiers who tore him apart with their daggers. 24_ACT16, 25_ACT16
Also martyred was Hájí Mírzá Jání, the faithful merchant of Káshán, who had acted as host to the Báb in that city [DB 10-12, Section 3]. 26_ACT16 , 27_ACT16
And among Nabíl’s account of martyrdoms of these Síyáh-Chál companions, is one of the radiant youth ‘Abdu’l-Vahháb-i-Shírází as recounted by Bahá’u’lláh Himself:
We were awakened one night, ere break of day, by Mírzá ‘Abdu’l-Vahháb-i-Shírází, who was bound with Us to the same chains. He had left Kázímayn and followed Us to Tihrán, where he was arrested and thrown
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