hadiths from al-Layth?’

He answered, ‘A shaykh who was known as Zayd ibn Ḥubbāb.’ ⦗1⦘

When Manṣūr ibn ʿAmmār visited al-Layth, he gave him one thousand dinars. When Ibn Lahīʿah’s house was consumed by fire, he sent him one thousand dinars, and he likewise sent Mālik one thousand dinars. He even clothed me in a silk brocade shirt, which I still keep.

This report was transmitted by Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad al-Hamadhānī, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣaydanānī, who said, ‘I heard al-Ashajj.’ ⦗2⦘

Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Nasāʾī said: ‘I heard Qutaybah say, “I heard Shuʿayb remark, ‘My father nets between twenty thousand and twenty-five thousand dinars in a single year, yet the year ends with him still in debt.’”’

And through this chain to al-Khaṭīb: Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ informed us, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar informed us, Isḥāq ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ramlī narrated to us, and I heard Muḥammad ibn Rumaḥ say: ‘Al-Layth ibn Saʿd’s annual income was eighty thousand dinars, yet Allah never obliged him to pay the zakat of even a single dirham.’ ⦗3⦘

I say: The previously cited figure for his income is the sounder one.

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Najdah al-Tanūkhī said: I heard Muḥammad ibn Rumaḥ relate:

Saʿīd al-Ādam told me, ‘I passed by al-Layth ibn Saʿd and he cleared his throat to attract my attention. I turned back, and he said, “O Saʿīd, take this notebook ⦗4⦘ and write down for me the names of those who stay in the mosque and have neither trade nor income.”’

I replied, ‘May Allah reward you, Abū …’