PART III
AN INDEX OF
SCRIPTURAL TABLETS OF
BAHĀ'-ALLĀH
(1817-1892)
ADDRESSED TO BĀBĪ-BAHA'I NOTABLES
AND ADHERENTS
HANDS OF THE
CAUSE
APOSTLES AND THEIR
FAMILIES
TB-H
Tablets addressed to the `Hands of the Cause' (Ayād-i amr-Allāh),
appointed by Baha'-Allah, eminent Bahā'ī believers appointed to oversee the
spread and protection of the nascent (Persian) Baha'i community. This
listing also includes and Tablets of Baha'-Allah to their relatives and
associates. Cf. `Hands of the Cause' appointed by `Abd al-Baha'...
[1]
Ḥājjī [Mīrzā] Mullā `Alī
Akbar Shahmīrzādī (1258/1842- d. Tehran 21st Rabi I 1328/ 4th March 1910) son of
Mullā `Abbās who had studied at Mashhad and was known as Ḥājjī Akhūnd. He became
a Babi in about 1861 was appointed
The "Famine Tablet"
of c. 1871-2 in response to an enquiry of `Alī Akbar Shahmīrzādī .
Text in . Partly cited Ma'idih
4:36-37 + see Fayḍi, La'ali 411-2. See, Taherzadeh RB III:XX.
[2]
Mīrzā Muhammad Ḥasan,
Ardakānī [near Yazd] (c. 1232/1816-1928), known as Adib al-`ulamā' (c.
1232/1816-1928).
As the successor to Ḥājjī Shāh-Muhammad Manshādī, Amīn al-Bayān
("Trustee of the Bayan") (d. 1297/1880) he was known as Amīn-i iIāhī ("Trustee
of God") or Ḥājjī Amīn, Trustee of the Ḥuqūq-Allāh ("Right of God" = the Bahā'ī
legal finances).
See Ma'idih 4:90.
[3]
Ḥājjī Mīrzā / Muhammad
Taqī Abharī ( = Ibn Abhar) ( d. 1917). He was born in
Abhar a village between Qazvin and Zanjan and became a Babi then Baha'i in 1868.
He married Munirih Khanum,
the daughter of `Alī Akbar Shahmīrzādī (No.1 above).
[4]
Mīrzā `Alī
Muhammad, known as Ibn Aṣdaq (b. Mashad 1267/1850--d. Tehran
1347/1928) after the title of his Shaykhī, Babi and Baha'i father Mulla Şādiq
Muqaddas Khurasanī (d. 1306/1889) entitled `Ism Allāh al-Aṣdaq' (The
Name of God, the Most Holy) by the Bāb.
Tablets of Baha'-Allah to
Mulla Şādiq Muqaddas
Khurasanī (d. 1306/1889) entitled `Ism Allāh al-Aṣdaq' (The Name of
God, the Most Holy) by the Bāb was posthumously appointed a `Hand of the Cause'
by `Abd al-Baha' in c. 1919.
Tablets of Baha'-Allah to Mīrzā `Alī
Muhammad, Ibn Aṣdaq
THE 19 APOSTLES OF
BAHĀ'-ALLĀH
[III]
TB-Apos.
Tablets addressed to the 19 Apostles of Bahā'-Allāh
(ADDXX).
Those considered
`Apostles of Bahā'-Allāh' were listed by Shoghi Effendi in various printings of
the Baha'i World, e.g. vol. 3:80
[1]
ADD PICTURE
Āqā Mīrzā Mūsā Nūrī
(d. 18XX), Āqā-yi Kalim (His eminence the
Speaker [with God]) brother of Baha'-Allah.
[2]
 
Āqā Buzurg-i Khurasani
known as Badī` (the Recreated / Wondrous One) (d. 1869), son of
Ḥājjī `Abd al-Majīd Khurasani who was chosen by Bahā'-Allāh to deliver his
epistle to Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh (r. 1848-1896) who subsequently ordered the
execution / martyrdom of this youthful (15 year old?) believer.
[3]
ADD IMAGE
Sayyid [Mirza]
Muhammad Ḥasan Isfahanī (beheaded Isfahan, 1879), was entitled Sulṭān al-Shuhadā'
(King [Sovereign] of the Martyrs) and is intimately associated with his brother
Mirza Muhamad Husayn Isfahanī (beheaded Isfahan, 1879) entitled Maḥbūb al-Shuhadā'
(Beloved of the Martyrs). There were both sons of Mirza Ibrahim whose two
brothers were named Muhammad `Alī-yi Nahrī and Mirza Hadi-yi Nahrī.
Balyuzi, BKG. Chs.3-4.
[4]
[5]
Mīrzā Muhammad Abū al-Faḍl
[Faḍā'il] Gulpāyigānī (b. Jumadi II 1260 / June-July 1844 -- d. Cairo 24th Safar
1332 / 21st January, 1914) son of Mīrzā Muhammad Riḍā'
Sharī`atmadār. He became a Bahā'ī in Sha`ban 1293/ Sept. 1876.
+) Persian and Arabic
Tablet in MAM 364-367.
In Ruhu'llah Mehrabkhani,
+) Payām-i Bahā'ī
(Supplement to Bahā'ī France) 122 /1990 = 146 BE.pp. 3-4. Printed here is a
Tablet of Baha'-Allah addressed to him as Jināb-i Mīrzā Abū al-Faḍl ("His
Eminence the Father of Erudition [Divine Bounty]")
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
ADD PICTURE
Āqā / Ḥājjī / Shaykh
Muhammad-i Qā'inī, entitled Nabīl-i Akbar (b. near Bīrjand, 23rd
Ramadan 1244 / 29th March 1829 d. Bukhara, 6th July 1892) and
Fāḍil-i Qā'inī (The Erudite one of Qā'in). An erudite pupil of the leading
Shī`ī authority (marja`-i taqlīd) Shaykh Murtaḍā Anṣārī (b.
Dezful,1214/1799 d. 1281/1864), from whom he received a certificate of ijtihād) and of the leading
poet-philosopher Ḥājjī Mīrzā Hādī Sābzivārī (d.1212/1797-1289-1872).
[10]
[11]
[12]
ADD PICTURE
Mulla Muhammad Zarandi (b. Zarand 29 July 1831) entitled Nabil-i Zarandi and Nabil-i
A`zam
Became a Babi c. 1847?
and in the early 1850s was among the 25 or more claimants to be the Babi messiah
man yuzhiru-hu Allah ("Him whom God shall make manifest").
[13]
13) Shaykh Muhammad Kāẓim
Samandar (b. Qazvin 17th Muḥarram 1260 / 7th Feb. 1844 -- d. Qazvin 23rd
Rabi II 1336 / 7th Feb. 1918).
ADD
IQ 30-43.
MA 4:89
Ruḥullah Samandari,
Āyāt-i bayināt, majmu`ih āthār mubārakih nāzilih bih iftikhār khāndān-i
Samandar va Nabīl ibn Nabīl-i Qazvinī / Tablets revealed by Baha'u'llah and `Abdu'l-Baha
in honour of Samandar, Nabil ibn-i Nabil, and their families. ABS-Persian:
Dundas, Canada, 156 BE/ 1999. ISBN # 1-896193-43-9.
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