Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi: Trustworthy
Abu Hatim ibn Hibban al-Busti: He was one of the pious preservers and scholars of religion
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani: There is no mistake in his hadith
Abu Zar'ah al-Razi: Trustworthy
Abu Ya'la al-Khalili: Trustworthy, authoritative if the narrator from him is trustworthy
Ahmad ibn Hanbal: He only takes from the trustworthy
Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i: Trustworthy
Ahmad ibn Salih al-Jili: Trustworthy
Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani: Trustworthy, Sound
Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri: Admired him, preferred him over all the people of Homs
Al-Awza'i: There was no one more reliable in the companions of al-Zuhri than al-Zubaidi
Al-Dhahabi: Sound, and said in Tadhhib: One of the flags
Dahim al-Dimashqi: Shu'ayb ibn Abi Hamza is trustworthy, sound, his hadith resembles the hadith of 'Uqayl, and al-Zubaidi is above him
Ali ibn al-Madini: He was considered trustworthy and sound among us
Muhammad ibn Sa'd, the author of al-Waqidi: The most knowledgeable of the Levant in fatwa and hadith, and once: He contained what is between my sides of knowledge
Muhammad ibn 'Awf al-Himsi: One of the trustworthy Muslims
Yahya ibn Ma'in: Trustworthy, in my opinion, more reliable than Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah in narrations from al-Zuhri