Statement about Imam al-Dhahabi by Muhammad Hussain Nailwi Hanafi:

“When Imam al-Dhahabi authenticates something, it becomes definitively authentic, and whoever denies it is—if not a disbeliever—then at least a transgressor, because the statement of Imam al-Dhahabi (رحمه الله) is authoritative.” [Nida-e-Haqq, p. 285]

Imam al-Dhahabi writes:

“He was an Imam, a Hafiz, an authoritative proof, a leading scholar in jurisprudence and hadith, a unique mujtahid of the world, alongside being deeply religious, pious, God-fearing, and devoted in worship.” [Al-Kashif by al-Dhahabi 3/18]