In a day-long orgy of killing, Ibn Bijad's Ikhwan rode from settlement to settlement and slaughtered all the men and boys they found, plundering whatever booty they could find and leaving no-one but women and children to lament the loss of their loved ones.
It is generally agreed that this act of violence and destruction, directed not against infidels or Iraqis but against the tribesmen and merchants of the Nejd who shared the same faith as their persecutors and who owed allegiance to Ibn Saud finally sealed the fate of the Ikhwan.
In one day, Ibn Bijad and his raiders had effectively alienated both the nomadic and the urban citizens of Ibn Saud's new Kingdom. Ibn Saud, who had won a reaffirmation of loyalty from the country's leaders at the "Big Gathering", could now count on popular support amongst all his people for action to break the Ikhwan and impose law, order and security on the lands he now ruled.
The purity of faith which had underpinned the formation of the Ikhwan had become so corrupted by blood-lust and greed that it had turned upon its own people.