Ouzai

Al-Awzāʻī
Born	707 CE Damascus, Syria
Died	774 CE Beirut, Lebanon
Ethnicity	Arab
Religion	Islam
Jurisprudence	Awza'i
Main interest(s)	Hadith, Fiqh
Notable idea(s)	Awza'i madhhab

For further information on the Awza'i madhhab see Awza'i.

Abu Amr Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr al-Awzai (707–774) was the chief representative and eponym of the Awzai school of Islamic jurisprudence.

Apparently, born in Baalbek, Lebanon in 707, very little of al-Awzai's writings survive, but his style of Islamic jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh) is preserved in Abu Yusuf's (died 798) book Al-radd ala siyar al-Awzai, in particular his reliance on the "living tradition," or the uninterrupted practice of Muslims handed down from preceding generations. For Awzai, this is the true Sunnah of Muhammad (died 632). Awzai's school flourished in Syria, the Maghreb, and Muslim Spain but was eventually overcome by the Maliki school of Islamic law in the 9th century. However, given his authority and reputation as a Sunni Imam and pious ancestry, his views retain potential as a source of law and a basis for alternative legal approaches and solutions. He died in 774 and was buried near Beirut, Lebanon, where his tomb is still visited.

As with Malik ibn Anas, al-Awza'i holds that one is not permitted to kill civilians even if it seems necessary to achieve military objective, and declared that killing women and children is never permissible during warfare.

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