December 1848: Baha’u’llah sets out to visit the Bábis at Shaykh Tabarsi

In December 1848, to fulfill His promise to visit Shaykh Tabarsi for a second time, Baha'u'llah set out with a number of the Bábis intending to visit the besieged fortress. Those who went with Him included

• Haji Mirza Janiy-i-Kashani, [The merchant who had acted as host to the Báb in Kashan, and the first chronicler of His Faith, who was martyred in August 1852]
• Mulla Baqir-i-Tabrizi (one of the Bab's Letters of the Living),
• Shaykh Abu-Turab-i-Ishtahardi,
• Aqa Siyyid Hasan-i-Khu'i,
• Aqa Siyyid Husayn-i-Turshizi (one of the Seven Martyrs of Tihran),
• 'Abdu'l-Vahhab Big,
• Muhammad-Taqi Khan-i-Nuri and
• Mirza Yahya, Subh-i-Azal.

But Baha'u'llah did not succeed in fulfilling His intention, for He and His companions were arrested and detained when they reached a village some nine miles from Shaykh Tabarsi. 

- Balyuzi  (‘Baha’u’llah the King of Glory’)