al-Tujībī informed us, saying: al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Mulayḥ al-Ṭarāʾifī told us; I heard al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān say:
Ibn Wahb remarked, “Had it not been for Mālik and al-Layth, people would have gone astray.” (1)

Aḥmad al-Abbār said: Abū Ṭāhir narrated to us from Ibn Wahb, who said:
“Were it not for Mālik and al-Layth, I myself would have perished; I used to imagine that every report transmitted from the Prophet ﷺ had to be acted upon exactly as stated.” (2)

Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Rasʿanī (3) related to us: ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ said:
“The people of Egypt used to speak ill of ʿUthmān, until al-Layth grew up among them and recounted his virtues; then they stopped. Likewise, the people of Ḥimṣ (4) disparaged ʿAlī until Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh arose among them and narrated the merits of ʿAlī, whereupon they desisted.”

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Mufriḍ said: I heard Ḥarmala say:
“Al-Layth ibn Saʿd used to send Mālik one hundred dinars each year. When Mālik wrote to him saying, ‘I am in debt,’ he forwarded five hundred dinars. I also heard Ibn Wahb say that Mālik wrote to al-Layth: ‘I wish to bring my daughter into her husband’s house and would like you to send me some safflower.’ So al-Layth sent him thirty loads of safflower; Mālik sold part of it for five hundred dinars and still had some left over.” (5)

Abū Dāwūd said: Qutaybah narrated:
“Al-Layth’s annual income reached twenty thousand dinars, yet he declared, ‘Zakāh has never become obligatory on me.’”

Al-Layth also gave Ibn Luhayʿah one thousand dinars,