Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi: Trustworthy
Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi: An Imam, حافظ (preserver of hadith), firm in his narration
Abu Hatim al-Razi: Malik is a trustworthy Imam of the people of Hijaz, and once: Trustworthy and he is the most firm of the companions of al-Zuhri and Ibn Uyainah, and if they differed with Malik from the people of Hijaz, the ruling would be for Malik, and Malik is pure in men, pure in hadith, and he is purer in hadith than al-Thawri and al-Awza'i, and stronger in al-Zuhri than Ibn Uyainah, and less error than him, and stronger than Ma'mar and Ibn Abi Dhi'b
Abu Hatim ibn Hibban al-Busti: The first of the jurists to select men, and once: One of the leaders of the followers of the Tabi'een and the most distinguished of the jurists and righteous
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani: There is no one in the world with better hadith than him despite its small number
Abu Abd Allah al-Hakim al-Nishapuri: An Imam who collects his hadith
Ahmad ibn Hanbal: Malik is the most firm in everything, and once: His hadith is Sahih (authentic) and his opinion is weak
Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i: I do not know anyone after the Tabi'een nobler than Malik, nor more excellent, nor more trustworthy, nor safer from me regarding hadith, nor narrating less from the weak
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani: Imam of Dar al-Hijra (Medina), head of the meticulous scholars and the greatest of the scrupulous
al-Daraqutni: Hafiz (preserver of hadith), and once: He omits the name of the weak narrator in the chain, and once: It was his habit to narrate hadiths in mursal form (without mentioning the successor of the Prophet), and once: He mentioned him in the book of Sunan and said: From the trustworthy
al-Dhahabi: The Imam, and he said in al-Tadhhib: One of the flags of Islam, and Imam of Dar al-Hijra (Medina)
Sufyan ibn Uyainah: How strict Malik was in selecting men and how knowledgeable he was about them, and once: Malik was an Imam in hadith
Shuba ibn al-Hajjaj: He arrived in Medina a year after the death of Nafi', and Malik had a study circle at that time
Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi: He did not prefer anyone over Malik
Ali ibn al-Madini: Commander of the believers in hadith
Amr ibn Ali al-Fallas: The most firm of those who narrated from al-Zuhri about whom there is no disagreement
Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i: If the athar (narration) comes, then Malik is the star, and Malik and Ibn Uyainah are the two companions, and he once said: Malik is the proof of Allah Almighty over His creation after the Tabi'een
Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari: The most authentic chains of narration: Malik from Nafi' from Ibn Umar
Muhammad ibn Sa'd, the scribe of al-Waqidi: Trustworthy, reliable, firm, pious, jurist, scholar, proof
Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Numayr: No one measured his words in men like Malik ibn Anas, he did not narrate from someone who was not with him, nor did he narrate from someone who was not a hadith scholar in his view
Wakee' ibn al-Jarrah: Firmness
Wahib ibn Khalid: He did not consider anyone equal to Malik, and once: There is no one between its east and west who is safer in our view in that than Malik, and presenting to Malik is more beloved to me than hearing from others
Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Qattan: There is no one among the people more sound in hadith than Malik - meaning by the people: Sufyan al-Thawri, and Ibn Uyainah, and he once said: Malik is more beloved to me than Ma'mar, and once: An Imam in hadith, and once: Commander of the believers in hadith
Yahya ibn Ma'in: Trustworthy, and once: Everyone whom Malik ibn Anas narrated from is trustworthy except Abd al-Karim al-Basri, Abu Umayyah, and once: A proof, and once: The most firm of al-Zuhri's companions are Malik, and Malik in (narrating from) Nafi' is more firm in my view than Ubayd Allah ibn Umar and than Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani, and in the narration of Ibn Muharriz: Malik is the most trustworthy of those who narrated from al-Zuhri among the companions of al-Zuhri, there is no one in