Abu Ali ibn 'Urwah al-'Abdi: He did not care about him and did not trust him in his narration
Abu Nasr ibn Makula: He mentioned him in al-Ikmal, and said: He narrated from Abu Hatim al-Sijistani and Ibn Akhi al-Asma'i and al-Sakan ibn Sa'id and his paternal uncle and al-Ashnandani and others
Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Azraq: He had a very wide memory, I have never seen anyone with a better memory than him
Al-Daraqutni: They criticized him
Al-Dhahabi: He was a master of literature, his memory was proverbial
Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Abhari: I sat next to Ibn Durayd while he was narrating, and he had a book with him, and he said, Al-Asma’i said, so he would say in one place: Al-Riashi told us, and in another: Abu Hatim told us, and in another: My nephew, Ibn al-Asma’i, told us on the authority of al-Asma’i, as it came to his mind
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Azhar: I entered upon him and found him drunk
Maslamah ibn al-Qasim al-Andalusi: He was not trustworthy according to all of them, and he was dissolute