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The Kitáb-i-Aqdas

  • Author:
  • Bahá’u’lláh

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í World Centre, 1992 edition
  • Pages:
  • 254
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Pages 242-243
 

178. Call ye to mind the shaykh whose name was Muḥammad-Ḥasan # 166

 
Shaykh Muḥammad-Ḥasan, one of the leading exponents of Shí’ih Islám, rejected the Báb. The author of voluminous 243 writings on Shí’ih jurisprudence, he is reported to have died around 1850.
 
Nabíl, in The Dawn-Breakers, describes the encounter that took place in Najaf between Mullá ‘Alíy-i-Bastamí, one of the Letters of the Living, and Shaykh Muḥammad-Ḥasan. During the meeting, Mullá ‘Alí announced the manifestation of the Báb and extolled the potency of His Revelation. At the instigation of the shaykh, Mullá ‘Alí was forthwith pronounced a heretic and expelled from the assembly. He was put on trial, transported to Istanbul, and condemned to hard labour.