The Fate of the Point’s Writings

4.   Nabil’s Version
The Dawn-Breakers, Nabil’s Narrative, P. 430:
“The seventh Naw-Ruz after the declaration of the BAB fell on the sixteenth day of the month of Jamadiy’l-Avval, in the year A.H. 1267 (A.D. 1851), a month and half after the termination of the struggle of Zanjan. That same year, towards the end of spring, in the early days of the month of Sha’ban (1-30 June A.D. 1851), Bahaullah left capital for Karbala. I was [i.e. author Nabil], at that time dwelling in Karmanshah, in the company of Mirza Ahmad (-i Katib otherwise known as Mulla Abd al Karim of Qazwin] the BAB’s amanuensis who had been ordered by Bahaullah to collect and transcribe all the sacred writings [of the Point], the originals of which were, for the most part, in his possession.”

Professor Browne’s Footnote 1 in PP. 41 of the Traveller’s Narrative, Vol. II English Translation = P. 53, Persian Text Vol. I:

“Mulla Abd al Karim was also known amongst the BABis by the name of Mirza Ahmad-i Katib (the Scribe), inasmuch as he acted as amanuensis of the BAB and later to Mirza Yahya, Subh-i Azal. He was one of the twenty eight victims put to death in August 1852 in Teheran, apparently without having undergone the previous torture which he had much feared and wherefrom he had prayed frequently to be delivered.”