Abu al-Fath ibn Abi al-Fawaris: More trustworthy than his father and his brother Abu Bakr
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: Do not write from my son, for he lies
Abu Nasr ibn Makula: Trustworthy
al-Khatib al-Baghdadi: Trustworthy
al-Darqutni: I did not know anything but good about him, and our companions preferred him over his father, and there is nothing wrong with him, and he was not criticized except that he used to narrate from the books of his father
al-Dhahabi: The statement of his father about him is not accepted, nor his statement about his father