Here are his qualifications, like I said more qualified than 99.9% of people who call themselves moulvis, mullahs, aalims and shiekhs in Pakistan
He carried out preliminary Arabic and Islamic Studies as a teenager in the UK in 1997 before going to Damascus, Syria to study, in a time when a generation of students were inspired by the likes of Shaykh Hamza Yusuf In Damascus he adopted the Maliki madhhab, sharing his accommodation with young Malikis, who were freshly graduated scholars and senior students of knowledge of Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian descent. It was with them that he privately studied his basic Maliki Fiqh and Maliki Usul, in addition to studying at Ma'had al-Amaniya and at Damascus University for a year and a half, where he covered the essential elementary sciences of Islam.
Mufti Abu Layth then travelled to Pakistan to memorise the Qur'an, which he completed within a year, along with Tafsir, some Fiqh, and some literature at the Jami`ah Muhammadiyyah Institute in Islamabad, Pakistan (under the supervision of Shaykh Amin-ulHasanat, the son of the Legendary Pir Karam Shah al-Azhari). He then returned to Syria to recite the entire Qur'an to Shaykh Abdul-Haadi at-Tabbaa' who was a key student of Shaykh Bakri al-Tarabeeshi (who held one of the most highest chains/asaneed in the Quran worldwide). Shaykh Abdu'l-Haadi after listening to the entire Quran authorised Mufti Abu Layth to teach with an ijazah [License to teach] and chain of transmission (isnad) going back to the Messenger of Allah (SAW).
Amongst other Shuyukh whose public durus in Damascus Mufti benefited from were: Shaykh AbdurRazzaq alHalabi alHanafi, Shaykh Ramadan alBouti and Shaykh AbdulGhani al-Diqqar; a free-sprited scholar, who had received international awards and was amongst the leading grammarians in the entire Muslim world, he would teach weekly classes on Saheeh Bukhari. Mufti would often share personal dialogues with Shaykh AbdulGhani al-Diqqar and was very impressed and inspired by his eccentric sense of humour despite his old age (82 yrs old), he'd often do pranks like pull and trip-over some of his senior-aged friends/students in the masjid and find it hillarious, may Allah elevate his maqam in Jannah.
UK Education
Since his return to the UK in 2005, Mufti qualified as a professional teacher (PGCE) and completed his Masters degree (M.Ed) He has taught Arabic and Islamic Studies in various Schools and Colleges. His passion in Psychology led him to University studies once again, where he completed a degree in Psychology (B.S.C)