Baha or Baha'u'llah is a later title (not given by the Bab) of Mirza Husayn-Ali Nuri, who was the older brother, guardian and intermediary of Mirza Yahya Nuri (Subh-i-Azal) who was the named successor of the Bab and source of revelation after him according to the Bab's own well-known testament [1]. First in the middle of the 1850s Baha'u'llah was accussed of making claims, which he denied, called the claimers "liars" [2], and continued to write in high praise of Subh-i-Azal (see [3], [4]).
Later in the 1860s he claimed that he was doing taqiyya all the time, was actually the Bayani messianic figure himself, and the true source of Subh-i-Azal verses [5]. This is the opposite of what actually happened, Baha'u'llah's position was wholly derived from the position of his younger brother (see also [6]), who also contributed to one of most well-known works, the Kitab-i-Iqan, according to the Bayanis, not vice versa. Baha'u'llah's own works testify for the absurdity of this claim, as Subh-i-Azal's style of writing in Baha'u'llah's absence does not differ from his style of writing in the latter's presence. He did nevertheless gather his own followers but his religion has little to do with the actual substance of the Bayan, despite referencing it.
[1] https://bayanic.com/lib/fwd/vesayat/Vesayat-FWD.html, "when you art cut off from this Throne recite the verses that your Lord causes to be inspired in your heart ... preserve yourself, and then that which has been sent down in the Bayan, and then what will be sent down to your presence"
[2] https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_lawh_kull_taam, "My munificence overfloweth with the sprinklings of servitude in the Land of the Theophany ... bear witness and be assured that I [Bahá'u'lláh] have claimed naught but servitude to God, the True One. And God is my arbitrator against that which the people falsely allege"
[3] https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/additional-tablets-bahaullah/583990268/1#899160984, "The Kitab-i-Nur ... is the book of a glorious and loved one, and consists of the verses of the Protector, the Self-Subsisting" (part translated by Denis MacEoin in "Divisions and Authority Claims in Babism")
[4] https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/511, later verses (not translated in Stephen Lambden's draft) say even go so far as saying whoever rejects Subh-i-Azal is a disbeliever
[5] https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_surih_haykal_haddad, "verily We have chosen one of our brothers and showed to him a small drop of the high sea of science, and clothed him with the garment of one Name of the Names, and elevated him to a rank whereby every one rose to praise him..."
[6] https://www.reddit.com/r/BAYAN/comments/u63g6x/the_points_command_to_haba_full_tablet_translated/
The official explanation from Baha'u'llah of all of this is taqiyya, see his many writings where he accused Subh-i-Azal of jealousy as an excuse for that. But it is overall an embarrassing topic the Baha'is sweep under the rug completely in the West at least.
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