Bahá’u’lláh’s attendant Áqá Abu'l-Qásim was attacked and killed

From time to time, Bahá’u’lláh came into Sulaymáníyyih from the caves in search of the necessities of life. Áqá Abu'l-Qásim also visited Him and carried provisions to Him. Then a time came when Aqá Abu'l-Qásim had to leave Bahá’u’lláh and go to Irán to obtain money and certain goods. At the frontier, on his return, he was set upon either by highwaymen or frontier patrols and was mortally wounded. When he was found he was near to death, but was able to say that his name was Abu’l-Qásim, that he was a native of Hamadan, and that whatever he carried of money and goods belonged to Danish Muhammad, whose haunts were the uplands of Kurdish ‘Iraq. 

- Hasan Balyuzi (‘Bahá’u’lláh King of Glory’)

Many years later, Bahá’u’lláh described His situation in Kurdistán

“Soon after Our arrival, [to Baghdád] We betook Ourself to the mountains of Kurdistán, where We led for a time a life of complete solitude. We sought shelter upon the summit of a remote mountain which lay at some three days’ distance from the nearest human habitation. The comforts of life were completely lacking. We remained entirely isolated from Our fellow men until a certain Shaykh Ismá’íl discovered Our abode and brought Us the food We needed.” 

- Bahá’u’lláh (Quoted by Nabil, ‘The Dawn-Breakers, translated and edited by Shoghi Effendi)

Dressed in the garb of a dervish and taking the name Darvish Muhammad Bahá’u’lláh lived in a cave in the mountains of Kurdistan

Dressed in the garb of a dervish, those Sufis who wander from town to town, Bahá’u’lláh took the name Darvish Muhammad and assumed the life of a hermit, living in a cave in the mountains of Kurdistan.

Bahá’u’lláh’s daughter remembered what he had described of His life in these mountains:

‘The food was easy to describe - coarse bread, a little cheese was the usual diet; sometimes, but very rarely, a cup of milk; into this would be put some rice, and a tiny bit of sugar. When boiled together, these scanty rations provided the great treat of a sort of rice pudding.' (Bahiyyih Khanum, quoted by Lady Blomfield in “Chosen Highway”)

Bahá’u’lláh’s attendant, Aqa Abu’l-Qasim Hamadani lived in the town of Sulaymaniyyih and obtained provisions for Baha'u'llah, who would occasionally visit the town to go to the public baths. 

(Adapted from ‘Bahá’u’lláh, A Short Biography’, by Moojan Momen)