Mullá Husayn.
A young cleric who had searched for the promised one for years and who, on the evening of 22 May 1844, accepted an invitation to tea from a merchant in Shiraz. The Bahá'í calendar counts from that conversation. He died five years later commanding the defence of a shrine in Mázindarán against a besieging army.
Mullá Husayn-i-Bushrú'í was a young Shaykhí cleric who, after the death of his teacher, undertook a search for the promised one, including a forty-day fast and retreat. On the evening of 22 May 1844, walking outside Shiraz, he was greeted by name by a young man in a green turban — Siyyid 'Alí-Muhammad, the Báb — and invited to his house. The conversation began at two hours and eleven minutes after sunset, a precision the tradition preserves because the Bahá'í era is counted from it, and continued until dawn; during it the Báb wrote a commentary on the Súrih of Joseph in Mullá Husayn's presence, which Mullá Husayn took as proof. He became the first of the eighteen Letters of the Living. Five years later he commanded the Bábí defenders besieged at the shrine of Shaykh Tabarsí in Mázindarán, where he was killed in a sortie in February 1849 at about thirty-six. Nabíl's narrative, The Dawn-Breakers, is the principal source and is a devotional history rather than a neutral one.
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