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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Mukhtar a Biograghy Chapter 24 - Mukhtar Goes After the Perpetrators of Kerbala When Ibrahim arrives back in Kufa, Mukhtar decides to leave Ubaydallah Ziyad for a while as he sees it is tying up too much of his resources with no quick results.

So Mukhtar tells Ibrahim that the time is now right to go after the local people who participated in the killings at Kerbala; they will also be caught unaware for they think we are determined to catch Ubaydallah Ziyad first. Mukhtar calls for one of his most able commanders, Abdulla Kamil and gives him complete authority with the order: blockade Kufa utterly tight with nobody able to go out or come in without by-passing our soldiers.

With the effective blockade in force, Mukhtar and Ibrahim are in the governor's palace, and the order goes out that all those who participated in the Kerbala massacre should be rounded up and brought to the palace. The perpetrators of Kerbala were taken by complete surprise, for as Mukhtar had thought, they did not expect a blockade around Kufa when it appeared that Mukhtar and Ibrahim were busy chasing Ubaydallah Ziyad.

Whenever the people who participated in the crimes at Kerbala were caught, Mukhtar used to ask them to relate exactly what they did there; this way, no innocent person was executed, and also, this is how we have got so much details of the atrocities in Kerbala directly from the perpetrator's own mouth; also the excuse of "I was under orders" was not accepted by Mukhtar for people had the chance to change sides, as some did (notably Hurr).

The first two people caught are Abdulla Asaad and Malik Bashir; Abdulla was amongst those who burnt the tents and robbed Imam Husein (as) of his turban after his death; Mukhtar orders his hands and legs to be cut whereby Abdulla thrashes to death in agony; Malik Bashir was the one who robbed Imam Husein's (as) sword and Mukhtar orders that Malik be similarly killed.

Next, Nafee Malik is caught; he was one of Umar Saad's commander who was in charge at the bank of river Euphrates to ensure that no drop of water gets to Imam Husein's (as) side; and it was on his order that an arrow was aimed at the water bag carried by Hazrat Abbas; Mukhtar orders Nafee's executed.

Over the next few days, a number of perpetrators are caught, tried and the guilty are executed by the orders of Mukhtar; Abdulla Kamil is now after the major killers like Khooli, Sinan, Hurmala, Shimr, Umar Saad.