Musa, son of Shaykh Radi al-Din Yunus ibn Muhammad al-Irbili—later known as al-Mawsili—was a Shafi‘i jurist and the author of the Commentary on al-Tanbih.
He died in Rabiʿ al-Akhar of 622 AH, still in middle age and while his father was alive. He produced two abridgements of the Ihyaʼ, had an extensive repertoire committed to memory, and was noted for his brilliant, quick mind.
137 – al-Qazwini, Abu al-Majd Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Ahmad
Judge, imam, distinguished scholar, upright hadith authority, indefatigable traveller—Majd al-Din Abu al-Majd Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Abi al-Makarim Ahmad ibn Husayn ibn Bahram al-Qazwini, the Sufi.
He was born in Ṣafar of the year 554 AH in Qazwin.
He heard hadith from: his father; Muhammad ibn Asʿad al-ʿAttari Ḥafadah; Ahmad ibn Yanal al-Isfahani, the Turk; Abu al-Khair al-Qazwini, the preacher; Abu al-Faraj Thabit ibn Muhammad al-Madini; Abu Hafs al-Mayanaji; and a number of others.
He taught and narrated in Azerbaijan, Baghdad, Mosul, Isfahan, Raʾs ʿAyn, Damascus, Baalbek, Harran, Aqsara, Nisibin, Abhar, Qazwin, Khuy, Irbil, Duwayn (1), al-Rayy, and Egypt. He took up residence in the Saʿid al-Suʿadaʾ khanqah, his name became well known, and he was the sole transmitter of these two works: Maʿalim al-Tanzil and Sharh al-Sunnah by al-Baghawi (2).