Al-Dhahabi: The truthful Imam, the righteous example, trustworthy, noble, good, ascetic, pious, he would not narrate except with a chain of narration back to its source
Abd al-Hayy ibn al-'Imad al-Hanbali: The Shaykh of Justice in his land, he was righteous, ascetic, and pious, a narrator of hadith like his fathers