Abu al-Fath ibn Abi al-Fawaris: Trustworthy and reliable, he compiled and categorized what no one else had categorized.
Abu al-Walid al-Baji: Trustworthy
Abu Bakr al-Barqani: Ibn Shahin said, 'I have not contradicted the fundamentals in anything I have extracted and compiled from hadiths,' meaning he was confident in what he narrated. Al-Barqani said, 'Therefore, I did not take much from him, out of respect for him.'
Abu Ja'far al-'Aqili: A hadith scholar, trustworthy and reliable.
Abu Nasr ibn Makula: Trustworthy
Ahmad ibn Umar ibn al-Baqal: Weak. And once: Ibn Shahin said, 'I returned from one of my trips to find that my books had been stolen. So I wrote from memory twenty thousand hadiths, or he said thirty thousand hadiths, to make up for what had been lost.'
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-'Atiqi: A hadith scholar, trustworthy and reliable.
Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Baghdadi: He said, 'If Ibn Shahin narrated a hadith written on a piece of cloth, then write it down.'
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi: Trustworthy and reliable
Al-Daraqutni: How blind was the heart of Ibn Shahin! He brought me his book that he had compiled on Tafsir and asked me to correct any errors I found in it. I found that he had copied the Tafsir of Abu al-Jarud and scattered it throughout the book and attributed it to Abu al-Jarud on the authority of Ziyad ibn al-Mundhir, when in fact it was from Abu al-Jarud and Ziyad ibn al-Mundhir. And once: He errs, but he is trustworthy.
Al-Dhahabi: The truthful, the memorizer
Abd al-Hayy ibn al-'Imad al-Hanbali: The preacher, the commentator, the memorizer, the author, and one of the vessels of knowledge
Ubayd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Azhari: He was trustworthy, and he had from al-Baghwi seven hundred or eight hundred parts.
Muhammad ibn Umar ibn al-Akhdar: He was a trustworthy sheikh, resembling the sheikhs, except that he had a long beard. He also did not know much about jurisprudence. He once said: Ibn Shahin, 'I write and I do not contradict.'.