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As observed in a previous chapter the mangled bodies of the Bab and His fellow- martyr, Mirza Muhammad- 'Ali, were removed, in the middle of the second night following their execution, through the pious intervention of Haji Sulayman Khan, from the edge of the moat where they had been cast to a silk factory owned by one of the believers of Milan, and were laid the next day in a wooden casket, and thence carried to a place of safety. Subsequently, according to Baha'u'llah's instructions, they were transported to Tihran and placed in the shrine of Imam- Zadih Hasan. They were later removed to the residence of Haji Sulayman Khan himself in the Sar- Chashmih quarter of the city, and from his house were taken to the shrine of Imam- Zadih Ma'sum, where they remained concealed until the year 1284 A.H. (1867- 1868), when a Tablet, revealed by Baha'u'llah in Adrianople, directed Mulla Ali- Akbar- i- Shahmirzadi and Jamal- i- Burujirdi to transfer them without delay to some other spot, an instruction which, in view of the subsequent reconstruction of that shrine, proved to have been providential.
(273:2)
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