The raid, along with a failure to prevent a sack of Basra a few months before led to popular unrest in Baghdad, and the deposition and execution of the Abbasid Caliphate's vizier, Ibn al-Furat.

[6] Rather than reacting to the Qarmatian threat, Ibn al-Furat remained concerned with securing his own position at court, exiling or torturing and killing many of his potential rivals.

[6] News of this reached the subsequent caravans, which included several high officials and members of the Abbasid court, as they arrived at Faid, south of al-Habir.

[6][10] The commander of the escort, the Bedouin chieftain Abu'l-Hayja al-Hamdani, proposed to lead them via an alternative route to Wadi al-Qura, but the pilgrims refused his suggestion as it would entail too large a deviation.

[13][14] In addition, the Qarmatians took an enormous treasure in money, jewels, and precious items,[6] including the shamsa, a large, suspended, jewel-studded ceremonial crown symbolizing caliph's authority during the Hajj.

[18] The Qarmatians continued attacking Hajj caravans over the following years, and launched an invasion of Iraq in 927, which at one point threatened Baghdad itself and ranged as far as Upper Mesopotamia.