أحمد بن زين الدين الأحسائي
Little is documented about the early life of Shaykh Ahmad, except that he was born in al-Ahsa, in the northeast of the Arabian peninsula, to a Shiʻi family of Sunni origin in either the year 1166 AH (1753 CE), or 1157 AH (1744 CE). Nabíl's Narrative, a history of the Baháʼí faith, describes his spiritual awakening as follows: