Quddús

Jináb-i-Quddús () (c.1820–1849), is the title of Mullá Muḥammad ʻAlí-i-Bárfurúshi, who was the most prominent disciple of the Báb. He was the eighteenth and final Letter of the Living.

==Biography== === Early life and education=== Quddús was born in Bárfurúsh (modern-day Babol), a city in Mazandaran Province near the Caspian Sea. At the time, Bárfurúsh had a population of approximately fifty thousand and was considered the largest city in Mazandaran. Quddús was born in a neighborhood named Chaharshanbeh-pish. His father's house was located near the eastern bank of the Áq-rúd River. Different sources offer slightly different years for his birth, between 1815 and 1822. Nabíl-i-Zarandí's hagiographic history The Dawn-Breakers states that he was born in 1822, and this date is often reproduced by Bahá'í sources, while Abbas Amanat concludes that 1819 is the most likely date, based on the evidence of Quddús' own writings and statements made by other primary sources about his age at the time of his death in 1849. However, in the book Ganj-i-Penhan (The Life and Works of Quddús), Hooshmand Dehghan determines the year 1822 based on various historical evidences.