Page 13, in reality, belongs to the publisher, Mr. Zuhayr al-Shāwish—his foreword and his translation of Imām al-Ṭaḥāwī. So what, then, did Abū Ghuddah do in his “Falsehoods and Fabrications”?

He kept silent about everything with which we branded him, silent as an inert stone. He did not address a single point. This alone shows any fair-minded reader that, in “Falsehoods and Fabrications,” Abū Ghuddah condemned himself by his very silence. He offered no answer to any question that would have exposed his true condition and creed, nor did he present the slightest excuse for the charges I brought against him—ignorance, falsification, implacable hostility toward the people of the Sunnah and ḥadīth, and his deviation from their creed in loyal imitation of his teacher al-Kawtharī—except to mutter, “A blatant fabrication.” Such a paltry defence could be mounted by the most wretched and profligate of people once they have been refuted with clear evidence!

His replies to certain questions—and how they betray evasiveness, confirm his Kawtharī leanings, and reveal his enmity toward Ibn Taymiyya

Yes, he did attempt to respond to the last four paragraphs with some explanation, but in truth he was like a man trying to stab the eye of the sun, or one who digs his own grave with his bare hoof, fleeing from death only to fall headlong into it. Consider the details:

First, his answer to paragraph 16 is as follows:

“The collapse of the calumny: I say that whoever’s soul recoils at the mention of Muhammad—peace and blessings be upon him—is, with certainty, outside the fold of Islam. Anyone who today would say such a thing about the people of these sacred lands, which every year receive hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from across the Muslim world, has pronounced upon himself a verdict of absolute madness….” See p. 8 of