Abū al-Faraj ibn al-Jawzī: An Imam, Qur'an reader, Grammarian, Historian, Trustworthy
Abū Ḥātim ar-Rāzī: Weak in ḥadīth, Abandoned in ḥadīth, Trustworthy in poetry but not in letters
Abū Saʿd as-Samʿānī: He was a flag bearer of literature, history, and the days of the Arabs, trustworthy in his narration
Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī: Historian, scholar, trustworthy
Adh-Dhahabī: He was prominent in his time in Qur'an reading, his reading was beautiful and strong, and as for his ḥadīth, it was lenient
Muḥammad ibn al-Jazari al-Muqriʾ: An Imam, Qur'an reader, Grammarian, Historian, Trustworthy
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mukharramī: When the news of his death reached him, he said: 'Men have been announced to me, and Al-Mufaḍḍal is among them, so how can the eye be content after Al-Mufaḍḍal?'
Yūsuf ibn Taghrī Birdī: One of the righteous and trustworthy Imams, and he was a scholar of genealogy and the days of the Arabs