Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder63/Note3

In His book, Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion, pp. 320 f., E.G. Brown. gives the names of Baha'u'llah's wives and children. He says, ñBaha'u'llah had two wives, each of whom bore him six children.î In 1835 he married Nawwab, and 'Abdul-Baha was the oldest Son who survived from this wife. In 1849 he married his cousin Mahd-i-'Ulya, whose eldest son Muhammad 'Ali disputed the succession with 'Abdu'l-Baha after the death of their father. It has been stated by other authorities who were in a position to know the facts that Baha'u'llah also married a wife named Gohar in 1867, who bore him a daughter named Faruqiyya, and that in his old age he married Jamaliyya, the niece of his faithful follower, Khadim Allah. It is said that all his wives survived him.