Talk:Ibn-i-Abhar

Sequence of Events

Not one hundred percent confident that the current sequence of events as set out in this article is 100% right, as the sequence of events in the biography in Revelation of Baha'u'llah implies that Ibn-i-Abhar was imprisoned after his father passed.

However it gives the date of his fathers passing as 1874, and Baha'i World Vol. 18 gives the date of his first imprisonment as 1873. As a sidenote, the autobiography in Star of the West gives the length of this imprisonment as four months (the most likely explanation being a mistranslation, as 'Revelation of Baha'u'llah' states that the length of imprisonment was fourteen months "According to his own statement", which leads me to believe that it is citing the autobiography in Star of the West.)

All of the above supports the sequence I've used in the article and seems pretty cut and dry, but it is complicated by the fact that Baha'i World Vol. 18 gives the time of Ibn-i-Abhars imprisonment in Tihran as 1890-1894, whereas Revelation of Baha'u'llah gives the dates as 1891-1895. This discrepancy could mean that the first imprisonment actually happened after the passing of his father. Will try to find another source that clears this up.