Mukhtar now sets out to start his planning for avenging the...

Mukhtar now sets out to start his planning for avenging the perpetrators of Kerbala; he goes to Mecca to meet Abdulla Zobayr: Abdulla Zobayr was one of the three prominent people who refused Bayat to Yazeed (Imam Husein (as), Abdulla Zobayr, Abdulla Omar) Abdulla Zobayr was in Mecca, ambitious to assume power and was inciting people in Medina/Mecca to rebel against Yazeed in the guise of sympathy of Imam Husein (as), saying that he (Abdulla Zobayr) was related to (saww) (he was actually related through Lady Khadija: Abdulla Zobayr's grandfather's sister was Lady Khadija).

Mukhtar sees that Abdulla Zobayr also appears to want to avenge Imam Husein's (as) killers, so he goes to Abdulla Zobayr and asks him to join forces to avenge Imam Husein's (as) killers; Abdulla Zobayr does not commit himself positively and Mukhtar seeing no support forthcoming, leaves Mecca for Taif to his tribesmen where he spends one year (my deduction: most of 62/63 AH) trying to materialise a plan. Previous…