Abu Bishr al-Harawi: Trustworthy and righteous
Abu Sa'd al-Sam'ani: Trustworthy Sheikh
Abu 'Abd Allah al-Hakim al-Naysaburi: Hadith scholar of Khurasan in his later years
al-Khatib al-Baghdadi: Trustworthy
al-Dhahabi: Knowledgeable, understanding, comprehensive and learned, and others are more memorizing than him, and more skilled in the art, and the highest chain of narration in Herat ended with him
Abd al-Hayy ibn al-'Imad al-Hanbali: Trustworthy Hadith scholar