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departed from his native town of Bushrúyih in Khurásán for Karbilá, and for a period of nine years remained closely associated with Siyyid Kázim. Four years prior to the Declaration of the Báb, acting according to the instructions of Siyyid Kázim, he met in Isfáhán the learned mujtahid Siyyid Báqir-i-Rashtí and in Mashhad Mírzá ‘Askarí, to both of whom he delivered with dignity and eloquence the messages with which he had been entrusted by his leader. The circumstances attending his martyrdom evoked the Báb’s inexpressible sorrow, a sorrow that found vent in eulogies and prayers of such great number as would be equivalent to thrice the volume of the Qur’án. In one of His visiting Tablets, the Báb asserts that the very dust of the ground where the remains of Mullá Husayn lie buried is endowed with such potency as to bring joy to the disconsolate and healing to the sick. In the Kitáb-i-Íqán, Bahá’u’lláh extols with still greater force the virtues of Mullá Husayn. “But for him,” He writes, “God would not have been established upon the seat of His mercy, nor have ascended the throne of eternal glory! 8_ACT10, 9_ACT10
#3 Muhammad Hasan and #4 Muhammad Báqir: Letters of the Living
Mullá Husayn and his family were from Bushrúyih in the province of Khurásán.
Muhammad Hasan was his brother and Muhammad Báqir his nephew, and both were his constant companions and became Letters of the Living too. Nabíl states:
[They] accompanied Mullá Husayn from Bushrúyih to Karbilá and from thence to Shíráz, where they embraced the Message of the Báb and were enrolled among the Letters of the Living. With the exception of the journey of Mullá Husayn to the castle of Máh-Kú, they continued to be with him until the time they suffered martyrdom in the fort of Tabarsí. 10_ACT10
Another historian records:
Mullá Husayn’s brother, Mírzá Muhammad Hasan, was still alive when the prince treacherously invited the believers to leave Fort Tabarsí under his protection. He accompanied Quddús to the prince’s camp, where he was recognized and martyred 11_ACT10. He was perhaps thirty-two when he died.
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