On the second night at midnight the Bábís carried away the
two bodies [of the Báb and His companion].
On the third day the people did not find the bodies, and
some supposed that the wild beasts had devoured them, so that the doctors
proclaimed from the summits of their pulpits saying, “The holy body of the
immaculate Imám and that of the true Shí’ite are preserved from the
encroachments of beasts of prey and creeping things and wounds, but the body of
this person have the wild beasts torn in pieces.”
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘A Traveler’s
Narrative’)
