While on the way to Kufa and still a few days’ journey away from the city, he received news that the agent of Yazid in Kufa had put to death the representative of the Imam in that city and also one of the Imam’s determined supporters who was a wellknown man in Kufa.
Akiwa njiani kuelekea Kufa na ikiwa bado safari ya siku chache kutoka mjini, alipata habari kwamba wakala wa Yazid huko Kufa amemuua mwakilishi wa Imam katika mji ule na pia mmoja wa wafuasi waliodhamiria wa Imam ambaye alikuwa. mtu mashuhuri huko Kufa.