The same allegation is also mentioned in Minhaj al-sunnah...

The same allegation is also mentioned in Minhaj al-sunnah, a refutation of al-Allaamah al-Hilli's Minhaj al-karamah. It shows that he had been bent on levelling accusations, and like his other accusations this one too was baseless.

When al-Allamah al-Hilli heard about Ibn Taymiyyah's refutation of his work, he remarked: "Had he understood what I said, I would have replied to him" [^53] When the accusation of Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Qayyim that the Khwajah had been instrumental in the Mongol sack of…