Juz’ al-Ansari is a collection of hadith compiled by the student of Muhammad b. Abd Allah al-Ansari (d.215h), a prominent Muhaddith and Qadi from Basra.  Al-Ansari was a teacher of many great hadith scholars, including Ahmad, Ibn Ma’in, Ali bin al-Madini, al-Bukhari, Abu Hatim and many others. It was one of his youngest students, Abu Muslim al-Kajji (d.292h) that collected some of his hadith narrations and put them into a small collection known as Juz’ al-Ansari, the collection we will be reading, God-willing. This collection is particularly well-known for having a high isnad and for most of its narrations being considered sound.