Martyrs of the Second Revolt at Nayriz

compiled by Ahang Rabbani
1999

Introduction

In the Spring-Summer of 1852, the Babis of Nayriz launched a second organized and massive revolt against the combined forces of national and provincial military. In the process, however, many hundreds of them perished in the battles fought with the army, tribal and irregular forces arrayed to suppress their uprising or died in the general massacre of the Babi men at conclusion of the war.

The following list of the Babi martyrs during the course of this revolt was assembled from the eyewitness narrative of Mulla Muhammad Shafi' ("Shafi"), Fadil Mazandarani's Tarikh Zuhuru'l-Haqq^[1] ("ZH4"), and Muhammad Shaif'-Ruhani's Lam'atu'l-Anvar^[2] ("LA2"). As elaborated in my forthcoming book on this subject, with near certainty, the list in the Zuhuru'l-Haqq reflects the text of the unpublished history of Nabil Zarandi. Also, from the specifics information (and errors) in the text, it is clear that the Lam'atu'l-Anvar was relying exclusively on the information provided by Zuhuru'l-Haqq vol 4 and not on the narrative of Mulla Shafi'.

To facilitate future research, the sequence number in each source is provided against each name, (e.g., "'Abdu'llah, son of 'Ali" is the 101th name in the narrative of Mulla Shafi', and 109th name in Zuhuru'l-Haqq and Lam'atu'l-Anvar). [- Ahang Rabbani]

Shafi	ZH4	LA2	Martyr
101	109	109	'Abdu'llah, son of 'Ali
134	114	114	'Abdu'llah, son of 'Askar
71	105	105	'Abdu'llah, son of Karbala'i Akbar
120	113	113	'Abdu'llah, son of Mulla[3] Muhammad
92	108	108	'Abid, son of Mashhadi Muhsin
40	103	103	'Abid, son of Mulla Barkhurdar
31	102	102	'Abid Yar-kash[4]
125	112	112	'Abidin[5]
108	111	111	'Ali
60	146	146	'Ali, son of Karbila'i Baqir
107	110	110	'Ali, son of Mashhadi[6] Ahmad
151	161	18	'Ali, son of Mulla Qasim 'Ashura
146	115	115	'Ali-Murad[7]
74	106	106	'Askar, son of 'Ali
156	116	116	'Askar, son of 'Ali Mulla Abu'l-Qasim
56	140	140	'Askar, son of Haji ibn Karbala'i Baqir[8]
135	13	13	Abu-Talib
34	4	4	Abu-Talib, son of Mir Ahmad
133	12	12	Abu-Talib, son of Mulla Zaynu'l-'Abidin
46	5	5	Ahmad Haji Abu'l-Qasim
102	10	10	Akbar, son of 'Abdu'llah (son of 'Ali)
88	7	7	Akbar Muhammad-Qasim
116	11	11	Akbar Muhammad-Shah
91	9	9	Akhund Mulla 'Isa
25	1	1	Akhund Mulla Ahmad, son of Mulla Muhsin
26	2	2	Akhund Mulla 'Ali Katib, son of Mulla 'Abdu'llah
67	6	6	Aqa Shaykh Muhammad
29	3	3	Asadu'llah, son of Mirza 'Ali
45	138	138	Asadu'llah, son of Mirza Mihdi
33	92	90	Baqir, son of Mir Ahmad
93	118	118	Ghulam-Rida Yazdi
69	101	101	Hadi, son of Khayri[9]
103	82	81	Haji Muhammad, son of Mulla 'Ashura
104	83	82	Haji Naqi
66	91	91	Haji Shaykh 'Abdu'l-'Ali[10]
55	145	145	Haji, son of Karbala'i Baqir
	165		Haji, son of Karbala'i Baqir
145	79	78	Hasan, son of Haydar Mulk
62	90	89	Hasan, son of Mashhadi[11] Muhammad
49	88	87	Hasan, son of Mirza
150	77	157	Hasan, son of Mulla Qasim 'Ashura[12]
38	86	85	Hasan[13], son of Mulla Yaqub
152	75	75	Hasan-'Ali[14], son of Nuri
155	74	74	Hasan Mashhadi Safr
109	43	43	Husayn[15]
149	78	77	Husayn, brother of Karbala'i Rida
68	136	136	Husayn, son of Aqa Shaykh Muhammad
70	80	79	Husayn, son of Mashhadi Isma'il
	84	83	Husayn, son of Qasim-Sifr
48	87	86	Husayn, son of Rajab
113	85	84	Husayn, son of Ustad Ahmad
157	73	73	Husayn, son of Ustad 'Ali
78	81	80	Husayn, son of Zaman
59	89	88	Husayn-'Ali[16], son of Mirza Aqa 'Ali
83	125	125	Karam, son of Ustad[17] 'Askar
105	104	104	Karbala'i 'Askar Birq-Dar
20	129	129	Karbala'i Baqir
122	128	128	Karbala'i Baqir[18], son of Ustad Taqi
143	123	123	Karbala'i Hadi
84	126	126	Karbala'i Hasan, son of Mashhadi Sifr
50	132	132	Karbala'i Husayn, son of Haji
51	133	133	Karbala'i Isma'il, son of Mashhadi 'Abidin[19]
43	130	130	Karbala'i Muhammad
141	124	124	Karbala'i Muhammad-Ja'far, son-in-law of Haji Muhammad-Taqi Ayyub
119	127	127	Karbala'i Qurban Sha'ban[20], son of `Abidin
148	122	122	Karbala'i Sadiq, son of Mashhadi Rajab[21]
44	131	131	Karbala'i Shamu'd-Din[22]
2	134	134	Karbala'i Yusuf Najjar
130	160	156	Karim, son of 'Ali
64	135	135	Kazim, son of Muhib-'Ali[23]
82	100	100	Khajih 'Ali
73	98	98	Khajih Burhan
81	99	99	Khajih Isma'il
4	97	96	Khajih Zaynu'l-'Abidin
94	151	150	Khajih, son of Ustad Nabi
42	137	137	Lutfu'llah Shumal
32	32	32	Malik, son of Mulla `Ali
19	25	25	Mashhadi 'Ali, son of Najaf
61	40	40	Mashhadi 'Ali, son of Sulayman
7	15	15	Mashhadi 'Askar, son of Mashhadi Baqir
6	14	14	Mashhadi Baqir Sabbagh
15	23	23	Mashhadi Mir Muhammad[24]
136	64	64	Mashhadi Mirza Husayn, surnamed Qutb
132	63	63	Mashhadi Muhammad-'Ali, son of[25] Naw-Ruz
22	27	27	Mashhadi Taqi Baqqal, son of `Abid
77	46	46	Mir Akbar
76	45	45	Mir Husayn
138	38	38	Mirza Ahmad
53	28	28	Mirza Ahmad[26], son of Mulla Sadiq
23	66	66	Mirza Ahmad[27], uncle of `Aliy-i Sardar
28	30	30	Mirza 'Ali, son of Mulla Sadiq
	117	117	Mirza Ali Sardar
52	37	37	Mirza Baba
36	34	34	Mirza Hasan, son of Yikkih
137	65	65	Mirza Husayn, son of Mirza Musa
144	70		Mirza Mihdi
128	62	61	Mirza Muhammad-Husayn[28], son of Mirza Taqi
140	68	68	Mirza Muhsin, son of Aqa Mirza Nasru'llah
	72	71	Mirza Mulla Qasim, son of 'Ashura
30	31	31	Mirza Yusuf, son of Mirza Akbar
139	67	67	Mirza Zaynu'l-'Abdidin, nephew of Mashhadi Mirza Husayn
153	76	76	mother of Hasan-'Ali Nuri
24		44	Muhammad Sadiq, uncle of `Ali Sardar
35	33	33	Muhammad, known as Yikkih
27	29	29	Muhammad, son of 'Abdu'l-Karim
79	47	47	Muhammad, son of Akbar Farkhi
112	55	55	Muhammad, son of Baqir
115	56	56	Muhammad, son of Karbala'i Taqi
85	49	49	Muhammad, son of Mulla 'Ali
47	36	36	Muhammad, son of Mulla Musa
95	52	52	Muhammad, son of Rida
57	39	39	Muhammad-'Ali
123	60	60	Muhammad-'Ali
87	50	50	Muhammad-'Ali Naw-Ruz
90	51	51	Muhammad-'Ali Haji 'Ali-Shah
121	59	59	Muhammad-'Ali Mir-shikar, son of Mulla 'Ashura
117	57	57	Muhammad Karbala'i Mahmud
14	22	22	Muhammad Kuchak, son of Mashhadi Rajab
72	44		Muhammad-Sadiq Husayn[29]
63	41	41	Muhib-'Ali
127	61		Mulla 'Abidin
13	21	21	Mulla Ahmad, son of Akhund Mulla Musa
142	69	69	Mulla Akbar, brother of Karbala'i Ja'far
10	18	19	Mulla 'Ali, son of Akhund Mulla Musa
96	50	53	Mulla 'Ali-Muhammad, son of Mulla Aqa Baba[30]
9	17	17	Mulla 'Ali-Naqi[31], son of Akhund Mulla 'Abdu'l-Husayn
41	139	139	Mulla Barkhurdar, son of Mulla Husayn
16	24	24	Mulla Darvish
65	42	42	Mulla Haji Muhammad
11	19	20	Mulla Hasan, son of Akhund Mulla Musa
118	58	58	Mulla Husayn, son of 'Abdu'llah
39	35	35	Mulla Husayn, son of Mulla Barkhurdar
		26	Mulla Muhammad, son of Karbala'i
8	16		Mulla Muhammad-Taqi, son of Mulla 'Abdu'l-Husayn
21	26	16	Mulla Muhammad-Taqi[32], son of Karbala'i Baqir
12	20		Mulla Mu'min, son of Akhund Mulla Musa
80	48	48	Mulla Shah-'Ali
111	54	54	Mu'min, son of Ustad Ahmad
147	71	70	Murad-i Lurr
129	158	154	Naqi[33], son of 'Ali
106	144	144	Rahim, son of Ustad 'Ali-Naqi
75	155	152	Sadiq
124			Sadiq
154	121	121	Safr, son of[34] Karbala'i Zaman
114	120	120	Shamsu'd-Din, son of `Askar
86	107	107	Sharif[35], son of Karbala'i Rajab
		158	Shaykh Hadi, son of Haji Shaykh 'Abdu'l-'Ali
58	141	141	Shaykh Hasan
		159	Shaykh Muhammad, son of Haji Shaykh 'Abdu'l-'Ali
98	119	119	Siyyid Hasan[36], son of Siyyid Nazar
100	143	143	son of 'Ali Murad
5	166	97	son of Khajih Ghani
3	147	147	son of Mashhadi Muhammad
37	148	148	son of Mirza Hasan
99	142	142	son of Mulla 'Ali-Naqi
131	159	155	son of Ustad Naqi
126	156-7	153	sons of Karbila'i Isma'il Hammami
54	149-50	149	sons of Khajih Hasan
110	154	151	sons of Qasim-Sifr[37]
	] 94	93	Taqi, son of 'Ali
97	93	92	Taqi[38], son of Sifr
89	8	8	Ustab Ja'far
1			Zaynal, brother of Karim
	95	94	Zaynu'l-'Abidin, son of Mulk
17	164		Zaynu'l-'Abidin, son of Mulla Muhammad
18	96	95	Zaynu'l-'Abidin, son of Ustab Muhammad

Notes

^[1] Tarikh Zuhuru'l-Haqq, 4:48-50, henceforth ZH4.
^[2] Lam'atu'l-Anvar, 2:448-51, henceforth LA2.
^[3] ZH4 missing Mulla
^[4] ZH4 missing Yar-Kash
^[5] ZH4 has added: Karbala'i Isma'il Hammami
^[6] ZH4 missing Mashhadi
^[7] brother of the slayer of Vahid Darabi
^[8] ZH4 missing ibn Karbala'i Baqir
^[9] martyred in Shiraz
^[10] Vahid's father-in-law
^[11] LA2 has Mulla in place of Mashhadi; ZH4 has neither
^[12] ZH4 missing 'Ashura
^[13] LA2 refers to him as Husayn
^[14] LA2 has him as Husayn-'Ali
^[15] ZH4 and LA2 have Mulla before his name
^[16] ZH4 has Hasan in place of Husayn
^[17] ZH4 missing Ustad
^[18] ZH4 notes his slayer was Mir-Shikar Rajab
^[19] ZH4 missing "son of Mashhadi 'Abidin"
^[20] ZH4 refers to him as Karbala'i Qurban, son of Sha'ban
^[21] ZH4 missing "son of Mashhadi Rajab"
^[22] Martyred in Nayriz by Aqa Rida Aqa 'Ali-Naqi
^[23] ZH4 and LA2 identify his father as Haji Muhammad
^[24] ZH4 and LA2 have Ahmad in place of Muhammad
^[25] ZH4 missing "son of"
^[26] ZH4 identifies him as "uncle of 'Ali Sardar"
^[27] ZH4 identifies him as "nephew of Qutb"
^[28] ZH4 and LA2 have Mulla in place of Muhammad. He was martyred en route to Tihran.
^[29] ZH4 missing Husayn
^[30] ZH4 missing "son of Mulla Aqa Baba"
^[31] LA1 suggest he was martyred during Nayriz-I upheaval
^[32] ZH4 missing Taqi
^[33] LA2 has read him Taqi
^[34] ZH4 missing "son of"
^[35] LA1 refers to him as Shari'at
^[36] LA2 has Husayn in place of Hasan
^[37] ZH4 has "son of Sifr"
^[38] LA2 refers to him as Naqi