Abdulla Kamil and his men go to search Khooli's house but he is not there...

Abdulla Kamil and his men go to search Khooli's house but he is not there; Khooli has two wives, one Kufian and one Syrian; the Syrian wife, who is anti-Shia, is questioned by Abdulla Kamil and she says Khooli is out of town; the Kufian wife, a Shia, also says the same but she discreetly points her finger to a secret attic (another report says she points to a basement toilet); further detailed searching in the attic revealed Khooli crouched therein.

Abdulla Kamil takes Khooli and his two wives to Mukhtar, where Khooli is put into prison whilst his two wives are questioned by Mukhtar; he asks the Kufian wife why she gave Khooli's hideout away; she says she is a Shia and once, the Syrian wife came to her singing and dancing saying that she is very happy, for Khooli has brought the head of Imam Husein (as) which she has put in the hot pit; the Kufian wife goes and takes Imam Husein's (as) head out of the pit and laments over it.

Mukhtar then questions the Syrian wife who admits to the alleged deed and says that Yazeed was her Khalifa; Mukhtar orders her body to be dismembered and then cut into pieces; the Kufian wife is given money and set free.

Khooli is then brought to the court, and after the initial excuse of "I was just obeying orders" etc, he admits to the following, amongst other crimes: controlled the unit of archers and gave the order to fly the arrows; stripped Sukaina's veil, and pulled her earrings off her lobes; beat up Imam Zainul Abideen (as) from his unconscious state with a cane, rolled the Imam to the ground from the makeshift bed, and stole the blankets covering the sick Imam; stripped Lady Zainab of her veil and earrings.

Mukhtar orders Khooli's hands and legs be cut and then thrown alive into the fire to burn to death. Next, the ten leaders who trampled on Imam Husein's (as) body are caught; they are tied and pinned to the ground and then trampled with horses until they die.

Many other perpetrators of Kerbala are brought before Mukhtar, interrogated and the guilty are executed; for a short time, no more perpetrators are apprehended despite the search, as the prominent and powerful people of Kufa were protecting them by giving shelter in their homes; Mukhtar gives the order to go and arrest the perpetrators even if they are in the homes of these powerful and prominent people.