In her well-known risāla written in reply to a letter from ʿAbbās Effendi, ʿIzziyya Khānum (Sultān Khānum), a sister of Subh-i Azal, states that Dayyān “openly and in public apostatized from the faith of the Bayān, and in numerous gatherings spoke without concealment in refutation of his holiness the Primal Point” and says that he even burned a large quantity of the Bāb’s writings. Beginning with his chief representative, Mīrzā Ibrāhīm Tabrīzī, Dayyān acquired a following in Azerbaijan and possibly elsewhere, who came to call themselves, not Bābīs but Asadīs. How large this group was is not clear, but Dayyān’s activities seem to have continued without interruption until about 1856, when he appeared in Baghdad, possibly in response to Azal’s attack on him in the Kitāb al-mustayqiz.̣ How long Dayyān spent in Baghdad is not known, but it would not seem to have been more than a few months. Azal’s refutation of him had contained passages that implied that he wanted both Dayyān and Mīrzā Ibrāhīm (whom he named Abu’l-Shurūr [Father of Evils] and Abu’l-Dawahī [Father of calamities] respectively) put to death.
(The Messiah of Shiraz - Studies in Early and Middle Babism by Denis Martin MacEoin)
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