Ibn al-Athir (1) said: “In his time no one reproduced the school of Ibn al-Bawwab as he did.”
He passed away in Mosul in 618 AH, and al-Najib al-Wasiti lauded him in a poem.
99 – Musa ibn ʿAbd al-Qadir ibn Abi Salih al-Jili *
The son of the shaykh and imam Abu Muhammad ʿAbd al-Qadir ibn Abi Salih al-Jili, later al-Baghdadi, the Hanbali—he was a shaykh, a musnid, Diyaʾ al-Din, Abu Nasr, and a resident of Damascus.
Born in Rabiʿ al-Awwal, 539 AH.
He studied with his father, Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Bannaʾ, Abu al-Waqt al-Sijzi, and Abu al-Fath ibn al-Batti, and he lived in al-ʿUqayba.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Diyaʾ, Ibn Khalil, al-Barzali, ʿUmar ibn al-Hajib, al-Sayf Ahmad ibn al-Majd, al-Qusi, al-Mundhiri, al-Fakhr ʿAli, al-Taqi ibn al-Wasiti, al-Shams ibn al-Kamal, Abu Bakr ibn al-Anmati, Ahmad ibn ʿAli, the grandson of ʿAbd al-Haqq, Ismaʿil ibn Nur, al-Safi Ishaq al-Shiqrawi, Yusuf al-Ghasuli, al-ʿIzz Ahmad ibn al-ʿImad, al-ʿImad ʿAbd al-Hafiz ibn Badran, and many others.
Ibn al-Najjar said: “I wrote from him in Damascus. He was good-natured and unobjectionable, yet devoid of learning.”