Abu al-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi: He was truthful, trustworthy, upright, and of good character
al-Khatib al-Baghdadi: I wrote from him, and he was truthful, trustworthy, upright, of good character, complete in his manliness, and outwardly religious
Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli: One of the men of Hadith