Abu Bakr ibn Abi Dawud: Leader of the believers in Hadith
Abu Bakr ibn Ziyad al-Shafi'i: Imam in Hadith
Abu Hatim al-Razi: Trustworthy, Imam of his time
Abu Hatim ibn Habban al-Busti: He was pious, from those who gathered Hadith and were devoted to it, along with manifesting the Sunnah and paying little attention to those who opposed it
Abu Abdullah al-Hakim al-Nishapuri: He placed him ahead of al-Bukhari and said: He is his Sheikh
Ahmad ibn Hanbal: Go to him and write from him, and once: I have not seen anyone more knowledgeable of the Hadith of al-Zuhri than him, nor a more accurate book than his, and once: If we had him, we would have made him an Imam in Hadith
Ahmad ibn Siyar al-Marwazi: Trustworthy, wrote a lot and compiled books
Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i: Trustworthy, reliable, and once: Trustworthy, firm, one of the Imams of Hadith
Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi: Trustworthy, truthful, an Imam of the Muslims
Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani: Trustworthy, حافظ (memorizer of Hadith), Great
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi: One of the knowledgeable Imams, the pious حافظ (memorizer of Hadith), and the trustworthy and reliable
Al-Dhahabi: The Imam, the scholar, the outstanding حافظ (memorizer of Hadith), Sheikh of Islam, and the scholar of the people of the East, and the Imam of the people of Hadith in Khurasan, he heard and traveled, and wrote the high and the low, and was a sea that buckets did not muddy, he gathered the knowledge of al-Zuhri, and his classification and existence, for that reason he is called al-Zuhri, the leadership of knowledge and greatness ended with him
Al-Mizzi: The Imam, the حافظ (memorizer of Hadith)
Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Khuzaymah: Imam of his time without dispute
Muhammad ibn al-Abbas ibn al-Akhram: Khurasan did not produce anyone like him
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Farra': Imam, trustworthy, prominent
Muslimah ibn al-Qasim al-Andalusi: Trustworthy