My cite command doesn't work: how to fix that?

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My cite{} command doesn't seem to work as expected while my bibliographical references are correctly set. How could I fix that? Could you please tell me if I didn't forget something anywhere? This is my MWE:
    documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside]{book}
    usepackage{mathptmx}
    setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
    setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
    usepackage{setspace}
    usepackage[left=4.5cm,right=4.5cm,top=5cm,bottom=5cm]{geometry}
    onehalfspacing
    usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
    usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    usepackage{tocloft}
    renewcommand{cftchapleader}{cftdotfill{cftdotsep}} % for chapters
    usepackage[numberedbib,nosectionbib]{apacite}
    usepackage[makeindex]{imakeidx}
    makeindex[name=npr, title=Index des noms cités] 
    makeindex[name=mat, title=Index des matières]
    begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
@book{Tufte2002,
 author = {Tufte, Blabla},
 year = {2002},
 title = {A title},
 
}
end{filecontents}
    
    usepackage{hyperref}
    begin{document}
    title{A title}
    
    maketitle

renewcommand{contentsname}{Table}
    tableofcontents
    
    chapter{A title}
    
    cite{Tufte2002}
    
    bibnewpage 
    {%start grouping
      doublespacing % <====================================================
      raggedright 
      nocite{}
      bibliographystyle{apacite} 
        bibliography{mybib}
    }%end grouping
    
    phantomsection
    cleardoublepage
    printindex[npr] 
    addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index des noms cités}
    printindex[mat]
    addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index des matières}
    
    end{document}

leandriis · Answer

Further reducing the MWE results in the following example code that upon compiling twice results in the following error message:
documentclass{book}

usepackage[numberedbib,nosectionbib]{apacite}
usepackage{hyperref}

begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
@book{Tufte2002,
 author = {Tufte, Blabla},
 year = {2002},
 title = {A title},
 
}
end{filecontents}
    
begin{document}
    
cite{Tufte2002}

bibliographystyle{apacite} 
bibliography{mybib}

end{document}

Undefined control sequence.
hyper@@link ->let Hy@reserved@a 
                                   relax @ifnextchar [{hyper@link@ }{hyp...
l.17 cite{Tufte2002}

This can be solved by inverting the load order of apacite and hyperref, loading apacite after hyperref.
This is also mentioned in the apacite manual:

The hyperref package turns (cross-) references into hypertext links.
This can beused in conjunction with a program such as LATEX2HTML to
compose .html files with clickable links, to internet pages or within the
same document, or it can be used to create a .pdf document with clickable
crossreferences.  Evidently, citations are also references.  Therefore,
the hyperref package transforms these into hypertext links as well, and
needs to redefine the citation commands and reference list commands in
order to do so.  These redefinitions have caused severe
incompatibility problems between apacite and hyperref in the past.  These
incompatibility problems have been solved and apacite is compatible
with hyperref, provided that apacite is loaded after hyperref.

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