They also seek the aid of unbelievers against Muslims. We and other Muslims have witnessed that whenever Muslims are afflicted by an unbelieving enemy, they side with that enemy against the Muslims. This occurred with Genghis Khan (1), king of the unbelieving Tatars (2), for the Rāfidah assisted him against the Muslims (3).
As for the assistance they gave to Hulagu, his grandson, when he came to Khurasan, Iraq, and Syria, it is far too manifest and well known to be hidden from anyone. In Iraq and Khurasan, they were among his greatest supporters, both openly and secretly (4). The caliph’s vizier in Baghdad (5), known as Ibn al-Alqamī, was one of them (6). He continually plotted against the caliph and the Muslims, worked to cut off the Muslim army’s pay and weaken it, dissuaded the common people from fighting them, and devised all manner of schemes.
Eventually, they entered and killed a number of Muslims said to have exceeded ten million people—though it may have been more or fewer. Never in Islamic history had carnage been witnessed like that wrought by the unbelieving Turks known as the Tatars. They killed the Hashimites and took their women captive, both Abbasids and non-Abbasids (7). Can anyone who empowers unbelievers to kill them, take them captive, and do the same to all other Muslims truly be loyal to the family of Allah’s Messenger—peace and blessings be upon him?
(1) N: “li-Jankishkhān”; Y, R, A, M: “li-Jankiskhān.”
(2) “King of the Tatars”: thus in N and M. All other manuscripts read: “King of the Turks.”
(3) On Genghis Khan’s invasion of regions of the Islamic world, see the events of 617 AH in Ibn al-Athīr’s *History*, 12/137–153; and *al-Bidāya wa-al-Nihāya*, 13/86–91. Genghis Khan died in 624 AH. On him, see also *al-Bidāya wa-al-Nihāya*, 13/117–121; and the article by Barthold in the *Encyclopaedia of Islam*.
(4) H, B: “secretly and openly.”
(5) “In Baghdad” is omitted from N, M, and A.
(6) “Who was known as Ibn al-Alqamī and was one of them”: thus in A and B. All other manuscripts read: “One of them was known as Ibn al-Alqamī.”
(7) N, M: “and others.” See what I previously mentioned concerning this in the Introduction, p. 21 (M). See also the comments of Muhibb al-Dīn al-Khatīb—may Allah have mercy on him—on *al-Muntaqā min Minhāj al-Iʿtidāl*, pp. [0–9]25–326. There he quotes al-Khwānsārī’s *Rawdāt al-Jannāt*, p. 578, which states in its biographical entry on Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī: “He came in the retinue of the divinely aided Sultan Hulagu, fully prepared, to Baghdad—the Abode of Peace—to guide and reform the people, eradicate oppression and corruption, and extinguish the flames of injustice and deception by annihilating the Abbasid realm and inflicting wholesale slaughter upon the followers of that rabble, until he caused their filthy blood to flow like rivers and pour into the waters of the Tigris, and thence into the Fire of Hell—the abode of perdition and the dwelling place of the wretched and wicked.” See Muhibb al-Dīn’s comments at this point and on p. 20 of the book. See also his marginal comments on pp. 326–327 concerning Ibn al-Alqamī and his role in inciting Hulagu to march on Baghdad and in deceiving the caliph al-Mustaʿsim, and so forth.