January 9

… the Bahá'í Teachings contain few references to Sabaeanism… Bahá'u'lláh, in His Tablets in the Persian language, describes two different groups as Sabaeans. They are,

•  the followers of an ancient religion who worship idols named after stars and who claim to have taken their religion from Seth and Idrís;

•  the followers of John the Baptist who failed to recognise Jesus as the Manifestation of God. He further states that this group is known to some as Sabaeans and that it continues to exist in the world. 

- The Research Department of the Universal House of Justice  (Memorandum to the Universal House of Justice, dated 6 August 1996; included in compilation: ‘African religions; miracles; strange phenomena’, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, 6 August 1996)