The tense interaction between Mullá Sádiq and Hájí Mírzá Karím Khán

“A bitter struggle broke out between the Muqaddas [Mullá Sádiq] and Karím Khán who, as it is known, had taken the rank of chief of the Shaykhí sect, after the death of Kázim. The discussion took place in the presence of many people and Karím challenged his opponent to prove the truth of the mission of the Báb. ‘If you succeed,’ he said to him, ‘I will be converted and my pupils with me; but if you fail, I shall have it proclaimed in the bazaars: “Behold the one who tramples under foot the Holy Law of Islám!’”

‘I know who you are, Karím,’ replied Muqaddas to him. ‘Do you not remember your Master Siyyid Kázim and that which he told you: “Dog, do you not wish that I should die that, after me, may appear the absolute truth?” Witness how today, urged on by your passion for riches and for glory, you lie to yourself!’

“Begun in this vein, the discussion was bound to be brief. Instantly, the pupils of Karím drew their knives and threw themselves upon him [Mullá Sádiq] who was insulting their chief. Fortunately, the governor of the city interposed; Muqaddas [Mullá Sádiq] arrested and brought to his house where he kept him for a while and, when the excitement had subsided, he sent him away by night, escorted for several miles by ten mounted men.” 

- A. L. M. Nicolas’  (“Siyyid ‘Alí-Muḥammad dit le Báb,” pp. 228–229.; Footnotes to chapter 9 included by Shoghi Effendi)

Mullá Sádiq arrived in Kirmán

When Mullá Sádiq and Mullá Yúsúf-i-Ardibílí arrived at Kirmán, they again had to submit to similar indignities and to suffer similar afflictions at the hands of Hájí Mírzá Karím Khán and his associates.  Hájí Siyyid Javád’s persistent exertions freed them eventually from the grasp of their persecutors, and enabled them to proceed to Khurásán. 

- Nabil  (Chapter 9, ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)

Another believer, Mullá Yúsúf-i-Ardibílí, received fiercer savage onslaught of the people of Yazd

Mullá Yúsúf-i-Ardibílí, likewise, was subjected in those days to a persecution fiercer and more determined than the savage onslaught which the people of Yazd had directed against Mullá Ṣádiq. But for the intervention of Mírzá Ahmad and the assistance of his uncle, [Siyyid Husayn] he would have fallen a victim to the wrath of a ferocious enemy. 

(Chapter 9, ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)

Mullá Sádiq was saved from the savage attacks of the congregation

By this solemn assurance, Mullá Sádiq was delivered from the savage attacks of his assailants. Divested of his ‘abá  and turban, deprived of his sandals and staff, bruised and shaken by the injuries he had received, he was entrusted to the care of Siyyid Husayn’s attendants, who, as they forced their passage among the crowd, succeeded eventually in conducting him to the home of their master. 

(Chapter 9, ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)