While he was there he attended the classes and participated in different scientific sessions as well as learning philosophy from Mirza Mehdi Shahid Khorasani.
[4] His moral courage and spirit of reconciliation between Muslims was the cause of his collaboration with the great contemporary scholars on the performing of social duties.
- Allameh Baḥr al-ʿUlūm himself managed the people’s affairs as well as teaching jurisprudence and Hadith.
[5] Bahr-al-Ulum was not severe in his daily life and his generosity and loftiness of purpose was proverbial, so some scholars said that he had mystic tendencies .
All of the contemporary scholars accepted that he had a great knowledge and piety, so Vahid Behbahani, as his teacher because of possibility of lacking the ability of Ijtahad in the last years of his life, asked him to express his opinion in jurisprudential problems .
Allameh Seyyed Mohammad Mehdi Baḥr al-ʿUlūm finally died in Rajab, 1212 A.H. when he was 57.