Brutal murder of ‘Ubaydullah Ibn Ziyad

After Yazeed, the worst criminal was the governor of Kufa ‘Ubaydullah Ibn Ziyad. It was he who ordered to torture Sayyiduna Imam Husayn رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ and his blessed Ahl-e-Bayt رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُم. After just 6 years, on the same day i.e. the 10^th of Muharram, 67 AH (by the strategic revenge conducted by Mukhtar Saqafi) Ibn Ziyad was brutally murdered at the hands of the army of Ibraheem Bin Maalik on the banks of the River Euphrates. The soldiers cut off his head and presented it to Ibraheem who then sent it to Mukhtar in Kufa.

(Sawanih Karbala, pp. 123)

The governor’s house in Kufa was adorned for celebrations and the head of Ziyad was exhibited on the same place where the blessed head of Sayyiduna Imam Husayn رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ was placed six years back. There was nobody to cry for this ill-fated person; instead people celebrated his death.

(Sawanih Karbala, pp. 123)

It is narrated in a Sahih (authentic) Hadees reported by ‘Imarah Bin ‘Umayr that when the head of ‘Ubaydullah Ibn Ziyad along with those of his accomplices was placed down, he went towards them. Suddenly everyone started screaming, ‘It’s come. It’s come.’ He saw that a snake was coming. It slithered above and between all the heads and finally approached the dirty head of Ibn Ziyad. It entered his nostril, stayed for a while and then left. Everyone started screaming again, ‘It’s come, it’s come.’ The same thing happened two or three times. (Sunan-ut-Tirmizi, vol. 5, pp. 431, Hadees 3805)

Sadr-ul-Afadil, ‘Allamah Mufti Sayyid Muhammad Na’eemuddin Muradabadi عَـلَيْهِ رَحۡمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـهَادِی has stated: The oppressors were unaware that the holy blood of the martyrs would ultimately lead to their own destruction and the Yazeedi kingdom would be shattered into pieces and that all the people who were involved in the murder of the blessed Imam (رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ) would be brutally killed. There would be the same bank of the River Euphrates; the same day of ‘Aashura; a similar group of oppressors; and the horses of Mukhtar would trample over them. Their majority would not benefit them. Their hands and feet would be cut; their houses would be robbed; they would be hung;