Abdulla Kamil then takes to the battle field...

Abdulla Kamil then takes to the battle field, and he manages to inflict damage on Masa'b Zobayr's forces; Mohamed Ashath is injured and flees from the battle field. Ahmer Shomit and his unit of men then come back to the field; Masa'b Zobayr then targets Ahmer Shomit and orders his men to surround and attack simultaneously on Ahmer Shomit, who gets killed.

Abdulla Kamil and his men are disheartened by Ahmer Shomit's death, but bravely fight on; Masa'b Zobayr though launches a two pronged attack, from the front and back, which effectively wins him the battle. Abdulla Kamil with his men return to Kufa, defeated. Masa'b Zobayr is now victorious and confidently heads towards Kufa; the Kufians are dejected by the defeat and death of Ahmer Shomit, despite Mukhtar's encouragement.

Masa'b Zobayr sends a letter to Mukhtar telling him to surrender now; Mukhtar and his commanders in Kufa refuse to do so and are willing to fight on. Mukhtar sends the reply that there is to be no surrender; he takes about twenty thousand men and camp on the Kufa border at Harura; both sides are now ready for the ensuing battle.

Mukhtar lays a trap for Masa'b Zobayr's men, in order to reduce the number of men on Masa'b Zobayr's side; Mukhtar is to argue very loudly with Mohamed Saad, one of his commanders, to go and immediately attack Masa'b Zobayr's side to which Mohamed Saad refuses, and then deserts Mukhtar and walks away with his units of men; the plan was that Masa'b would hear about the disagreement and desertion and would follow Mohamed Saad, at which point they would be attacked by surprise from behind.

Next day, the plan goes into action and Masa'b Zobayr falls for the trap and sends one of his commander Rabia with about five thousand men to attack Mohamed Saad; they are ambushed from behind by Mukhtar's men and all of them are killed. A fierce battle between the two sides takes place but neither side wins convincingly. On the second day, the battle continues.

On the third day, Mukhtar himself is in the battlefield fighting; Mohamed Ashath is killed; Masa'b Zobayr then launches a concentrated attack on Mukhtar's men; Mukhtar looses a number of his men and has to retreat to Kufa with only about six thousand men remaining in his army.