Note 178

178. Call ye to mind the &shaykh whose name was &Muhammad-Hasan # 166 &Shaykh &Muhammad-Hasan, one of the leading exponents of &Shi'ih &Islam, rejected the &Bab. The author of voluminous +P243 writings on &Shi'ih jurisprudence, he is reported to have died around 1850. &Nabil, in The Dawn-Breakers, describes the encounter that took place in Najaf between &Mulla &Aliy-i-Bastami, one of the Letters of the Living, and &Shaykh &Muhammad-Hasan. During the meeting, &Mulla &Ali announced the manifestation of the &Bab and extolled the potency of His Revelation. At the instigation of the &shaykh, &Mulla &Ali was forthwith pronounced a heretic and expelled from the assembly. He was put on trial, transported to Istanbul, and condemned to hard labour.