October 20. On this date in 1848, Quddús (Mullá Muḥammad ‘Alí-i-Bárfurúshí), who was the eighteenth believer in the Báb, arrived at the Bábi fortifications made at the Shrine of Shaykh Tabarsí..

 

October 20. On this date in 1848, Quddús (Mullá Muḥammad ‘Alí-i-Bárfurúshí), who was the eighteenth believer in the Báb, arrived at the Bábi fortifications made at the Shrine of Shaykh Tabarsí..

Quddús (Mullá Muḥammad ‘Alí-i-Bárfurúshí) met the Báb in Shiraz in 1844 and soon thereafter became the eighteenth believer in the Báb.

On September 10, 1844, the Báb had departed Shiraz for the Hajj pilgrimage accompanied by Quddús and a black slave. The group arrived in Mecca on December 12, 1844, where the Báb publicly declared his claim at the Kaaba and to the Sharif of Mecca.

On May 15, 1845, the Báb and his entourage arrived in Bushehr, having completed the Hajj pilgrimage. In Bushehr, the Báb spent ten days with his eldest maternal uncle, Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Muhammad, to whom Bahá'u'lláh would later address the Kitáb-i Íqán in January 1861.

The Báb then sent Quddús ahead of him to Shiraz, who brought the Báb's instruction that there was to be an addition made to the call to prayer (adhán). The Báb indicated to Quddús that they were to part ways and would never meet again. When Mullá Sádiq-i-Muqaddas tried to carry this out, he, Quddús, Mullá `Alí-Akbar Ardistání, and Mullá Abú-Tálib were seized, severely beaten and expelled from the city.

Four years later, on March 20, 1848, Mullá Ḥusayn-i-Bushru'i, who in 1844 had become the first person to become a follower of the Báb, visited the Báb at Maku prison, where the Báb was incarcerated. Subsequent to his visit, Mullá Ḥusayn-i-Bushru'i became involved in the Bábi uprisings. Under instructions from the Báb, Mullá Ḥusayn-i-Bushru'i unfurled a Black Standard in Mashhad, fulfilling an Islamic prophecy, and began a march with other Bábis.

They were rebuffed at Barfurush and therefore made defensive fortifications at the shrine of Shaykh Tabarsí.

On October 20, 1848, Quddús arrived at the Shrine and became the commander of the Bábís upon his arrival. Mullá Ḥusayn-i-Bushru'i would die at the battle of Shaykh Tabarsí on February 2, 1849. Quddús himself became a prisoner and was being escorted to Tehran when, in Barfurúsh, the local population lynched him. The Báb was later executed on July 9, 1850.