Shaykh Rabīʿ al-Madkhalī said about him:

“He is the mujaddid in the lands of Yemen,” and he said:
“There cannot be found—from the time of ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Ṣanʿānī to this present day—someone who established the daʿwah and revived it like al-Wādiʿī.”