Mukhtar is jailed in a dungeon together with other four...

Mukhtar is jailed in a dungeon together with other four thousand to five thousand Shias already there; (it was the intention of Muslim Aqeel to try for the release of these prisoners); the dungeon is about seventy five feet below ground level; Mukhtar's hands and waist are chained, his legs are chained to a heavy cannon-ball requiring about twenty people to lift; the dungeon is very dark underground with no sunlight and very little air; Mukhtar is ordered to be kept at an extreme corner so as even to deny him any fresh air from the opening of a door; his diet is malnourished food; the dungeon is always patrolled by about forty guards at a time working in shifts.

Ashura day massacre occurs whilst Mukhtar is in prison in Kufa, but he is brought out from the dungeon to witness the arrival of the heads of Martyrs and survivors in the court of Ubaydallah Ziyad. Here, he makes a vow to himself that he will not rest until he has avenged the perpetrators of Kerbala.

In prison, Mukhtar meets Maythame Tammar, a close companion of Imam Ali (as) who taught Maythame Tammar "ulumul balaya wal manaya": "knowledge of dream interpretation and of predicting some future events"; Maythame Tammar informs Mukhtar of his coming release and his fulfilment of the wish to avenge Imam Husein's (as) killers and enemies. Previous…