Abu al-Qasim ibn Bashkuwal: Trustworthy, he was a learned jurist, a knowledgeable scholar who issued fatwas during the time of Yazid ibn Habib and Ubayd Allah ibn Abi Ja'far, while he was still young
Abu Hatim al-Razi: The most knowledgeable person of his time, he had no equal in memorization during his era
Abu Hatim ibn Hibban al-Busti: Among the meticulous scholars and the people of piety in religion
Abu Zar'a al-Razi: Trustworthy
Abu Ya'la al-Khalili: Trustworthy, agreed upon
Ahmad ibn Hanbal: He confirmed him. And once: He has some oddities. And once: He is strongly criticized, and he says: He narrates confusing hadiths from Qatada and makes mistakes
Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i: Trustworthy
Ahmad ibn Salih al-Jili: Trustworthy
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani: Trustworthy jurist and scholar
Ibn Abd al-Barr al-Andalusi: Trustworthy
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi: He was a trustworthy mufti
Al-Daraqutni: Trustworthy
Al-Dhahabi: One of the flags, an authority with some peculiarities
Rabiah ibn Abi Abd al-Rahman al-Ra'i: The knowledge of that short man will continue to benefit the Maghreb
Zakariya ibn Yahya al-Saji: Truthful and trustworthy
Abdullah ibn Wahb al-Misri: I have not seen anyone with a better memory than him. If he had stayed with us, we would not have needed Malik ibn Anas
Muhammad ibn Sa'd, the scribe of al-Waqidi: Trustworthy
Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Akhram: Very knowledgeable in hadith, along with his knowledge and trustworthiness
Musa ibn Salamah al-Misri: He would come out of his house to find rows of people asking him questions, some about jurisprudence, some about hadith, some about the Quran, some about poetry, some about inheritance laws, some about Arabic grammar, and some about mathematics. He would answer each one of them without hesitation
Yahya ibn Ma'in: Trustworthy