Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi: Not relied upon
Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi: Obscure in his narration
Abu Hatim ibn Hibban al-Busti: Full of delusions, extremely erroneous
Abu Zar'a al-Razi: Lenient
Ahmad ibn Hanbal: Weak
Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i: Not strong, abandoned, and once said: We do not know that Malik narrated from any of the abandoned narrators except him, and I think his jurisprudence and Arabic language misled him
Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani: Weak
Ibn Abd al-Barr al-Andalusi: There is a consensus on his weakness
al-Daraqutni: Abandoned
Muhammad ibn Isma'il ibn Khalfun al-Azdi: Weak according to them, the scholars of Hadith do not differ about his weakness, and according to some of them he is abandoned, and some of them accepted him in matters other than rulings in particular, and he is not relied upon in any case
Yahya ibn Ma'in: Weak