The one to whom the Báb declared His mission and the first
to believe in the Him as the Promised One fell as a martyr at the Fort of
Shaykh Tabarsi on 2 February 1849 at the age of thirty-five. He was the first
of the Bab's eighteen disciples who were called the Letters of the Living, and
was designated by the Báb as Bbu'l-Báb which means the 'Gate of the Gate'. Read
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