Imam Malik bin Anas was one of the students of Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq.
Imam Malik studied under the teaching of Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq in Madinah and he used to say: ‘He was among the pious scholars who fear Allah.’
و قد أخذ عن الإمام جعفر الصادق رضي الله عنه الإمام مالك في المدينة و قال عنه : إنه كان من العلماء الزهاد الذين يخشون الله
{Hilyatul’ Awliyah, Volume 3 pg. 199; Minhaj as-Sharia al-Islamiyyah, Volume 3 pg. 114}
~ May Allah have mercy upon them