Abu Bakr al-Bazzar: Declared him thiqah (trustworthy)
Abu Hatim al-Razi: Thiqah (Trustworthy)
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani: Thiqah (Trustworthy)
Ahmad ibn Hanbal: He resembles the narrators of hadith, and once: his narration of hadith from Sa'id ibn Abi 'Urwah is mudtarib (inconsistent)
Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i: Thiqah (Trustworthy)
Ahmad ibn Salih al-Jili: Thiqah (Trustworthy)
Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani: Thiqah (Trustworthy), and once: He was accused of Shi'ism
Abd al-Rahman ibn Yusuf ibn Kharash: Saduq (Truthful)
Ali ibn al-Madini: He was thiqah (trustworthy)
Muhammad ibn Sa'd, the scribe of al-Waqidi: Thiqah (Trustworthy) inclined towards Shi'ism
Wakee' ibn al-Jarrah: He said to al-Hasan ibn 'Arfah: You have no one like him
Yahya ibn Ma'in: Thiqah (Trustworthy), Saduq (Truthful), Mamun (Reliable), Maqnu' (Convincing), by Allah, he is more trustworthy than Yazid ibn Harun