…Following the story of the life of the Báb as we celebrate the upcoming bicentenary of His Birth (1819)
Siyyid ‘Alí-Muhammad [the Báb] had some six to seven years of schooling with Shaykh ‘Abid. In all probability He left the school… before He was thirteen.
- Hand of the Cause Balyuzi ('The Báb - The Herald of the Day of Days')