Abu Ahmad al-Hakim: He is not strong according to them
Abu Ahmad ibn Adi al-Jurjani: He makes mistakes sometimes, but most of his hadiths are upright and truthful
Abu Bakr al-Bazzar: He is acceptable to us, there is no problem with him
Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi: Weak
Abu Hatim al-Razi: He is truthful, his hadiths are written down but not used as evidence
Abu Hatim ibn Hibban al-Busti: He had a poor memory and made many mistakes. He narrates from Qatada what is not corroborated, and from Amr ibn Dinar what is not known of his hadith. He died in the year 169 AH at the age of 89.
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani: Weak
Abu Zur'a al-Dimashqi: I saw him in high regard by Abu Mushir for hadith
Abu Zur'a al-Razi: He is truthful, his hadiths are written down but not used as evidence
Abu Abd Allah al-Hakim al-Naysaburi: There are conflicting opinions about him. It was narrated from Ibn Uyaina that he said: He had a good memory
Abu Mushir al-Ghassani: There was no one in our group who had a better memory than him, but he was weak and rejected hadith
Ahmad ibn Hanbal: He is weak. And once he said: You know better about him
Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i: Weak
Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani: Weak
al-Daraqutni: He is not strong in hadith
Duhaym al-Dimashqi: They weaken him. And once he said: He was trustworthy. Our shaykhs used to say: He is trustworthy, he was not a Qadari
Zakariya ibn Yahya al-Saji: He narrated strange things from Qatada
Sa'id ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Tanukhi: Take from him tafsir (Quranic exegesis) and leave everything else, for he was a worshipper at night. And once he said: People criticized him. And once he said: You are truthful, may Allah have mercy on you, in our land people seem to belittle him
Sufyan ibn Uyaina: He had a good memory
Shuba ibn al-Hajjaj: Truthful in hadith. And once: Truthful in speech. And once: Trustworthy
Abd al-A'la ibn Mushir al-Ghassani: Weak and rejected hadith
Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi: He narrated from him then abandoned him
Ali ibn al-Madini: He was weak
Amr ibn Ali al-Fallas: He used to narrate from him then abandoned him
Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari: They criticize his memory, but he is acceptable. We consider him to be from Damascus
Muhammad ibn Sa'd, the scribe of al-Waqidi: Qadari
Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Numayr: He rejects hadith, he is not strong in hadith
Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Tanukhi: It was said to him: Sa'id ibn Bashir was a Qadari. He said: Glory be to Allah!
Yahya ibn Ma'in: In the narration of Abbas he said: He is nothing. In the narration of Uthman ibn Sa'id he said: Weak. In the narration of Ibn Mahriz, he said: He has strange hadiths, from Qatada, and his hadith is not all that. It was said to him: Did he hear from Qatada in Basra? He said: Then where?