Abu Ahmad ibn Ady al-Jurjani: One of the most important and trustworthy people. The Hadith of Hijaz, Egypt and the surrounding areas revolve around his narration, and I do not know of any Munkar Hadith from him, if a trustworthy person narrates from him.
Abu Hatim ibn Habban al-Busti: He was one of those who collected and classified, and he was the one who preserved the Hadith of the people of Hijaz and Egypt, from the people of Egypt.
Abu Zar'ah al-Razi: I looked at about eighty thousand Hadiths from Ibn Wahb in Egypt and I do not know that I saw a Hadith of his that has no origin, and he is trustworthy.
Abu Mus'ab al-Zuhri: He used to respect him.
Abu Ya'la al-Khalili: Trustworthy, agreed upon.
Ahmad ibn Hanbal: Sahih al-Hadith, he distinguishes between hearing and presentation, and Hadith from Hadith, how authentic and established his Hadith is. He was told: Didn't he used to take things badly? He said: He used to take things badly, but when I looked at his Hadith and what was narrated from his Sheikhs, I found it to be true. And once: There is something in his narration from Ibn Juraij.
Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i: He is lenient in taking, but there is nothing wrong with him, and once: He is trustworthy as far as I know, he did not narrate a Munkar Hadith from the trustworthy.
Ahmad ibn Salih al-Jili: Trustworthy, righteous, possessor of knowledge.
Ahmad ibn Salih al-Masri: I have not seen anyone from Hijaz, Sham or Egypt with more Hadith than him, and I have not seen anyone better than two men: Ibn Wahb, and a man in Iraq, meaning Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi: Righteous Hadith, truthful, he is dearer to me than al-Walid ibn Muslim, and he has much more authentic Hadith than him.
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani: Trustworthy Hafez, worshiper, jurist.
Al-Harith ibn Miskin: Ibn Wahb combined jurisprudence, narration, and worship, and he was blessed with acceptance and love from the scholars. He was favored by Malik ibn Anas, and he was an Imam, and I never came to him except that I benefited from him good.
Al-Daraqutni: Trustworthy.
Al-Dhahabi: One of the flags (leading scholars).
Zakaria ibn Yahya al-Saji: Truthful, trustworthy, lenient in hearing.
Sufyan al-Thawri: He said to him when he first met him: Are you Ibn Wahb al-Masri? He said: Yes. He said: I have always known your status in Islam since I heard about you.
Sufyan ibn 'Uyainah: Sheikh of the people of Egypt, and Sufyan said when Ibn Wahb was announced dead to him: The people in general were saddened by him, and I was saddened by him in particular.
Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Qasim al-Masri: No one has compiled knowledge like his compilation.
Abd al-Alim ibn Abd al-Azim al-Basti: Ibn Sa'd described him as a Mudallis, but al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar mentioned him in the first rank of the Mudallis, and therefore his Tadlis does not harm him, nor does his An'anah.
Muhammad ibn Sa'd, the scribe of al-Waqidi: Knowledgeable, trustworthy, Mudallis.
Muhammad ibn Waddah: Malik ibn Anas used to write to him, to his jurist in Egypt, and I do not know of anyone from the people of the provinces that Malik wrote to in this way.
Harun ibn Abdullah al-Zuhri: The people of Medina used to disagree on something from Malik, so they would wait for Ibn Wahb's arrival to ask him about it.
Yahya ibn Abdullah ibn Bukair: More knowledgeable in jurisprudence than Ibn al-Qasim.
Yahya ibn Ma'in: I hope he is truthful.
Yunus ibn Abd al-A'la: He sought judgeship, so he drove himself crazy and secluded himself.