Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i

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Al-Awza'i
ٱلْأَوْزَاعِيّ
TitleImam
Personal
Born707
Baalbek, Lebanon
Died774 (aged 66–67)
Beirut, Lebanon
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic Golden Age
RegionSham
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceIndependent (eponym of the Awza'i school)
CreedAthari[1]
Main interest(s)
Notable idea(s)Awza'i school
Patronymic
(Nasab)
Ibn ʿAmr
ٱبْن عَمْرو
Teknonymic
(Kunya)		Abū ʿAmr
أَبُو عَمْرو
Toponymic
(Nisba)		Al-Awzāʿī
ٱلْأَوْزَاعِيّ

Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī (

Islamic jurisprudence
.

Biography

Main article: 8th century in Lebanon

Awzāʿī was of

Beirut, Lebanon, where his tomb is still visited.[7]

Views

Theologically, he was known as a persecutor of the

Qadariyya, but also one of the main historical witnesses of them. He said the Qadariyya merely appropriated the heretical doctrines of Christians. Al-Awza'i had met their founder Ma'bad al-Juhani.[8]

Al-Awza'i differed with other schools of jurisprudence in holding that

apostates from Islam ought not be executed unless their apostasy is part of a plot to take over the state.[9]

In the introduction to his work al-Jarh wa-l-Ta'dil, Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi preserves a corpus of ten letters attributed to al-Awza'i. In these letters, al-Awza'i addresses a series of high-ranking officials in order to plead the cause of individuals and groups. Among other things, he encouraged the

Abbasids to ransom Muslims who were captured by the Byzantines in Erzurum, and to increase the wages of the Syrian soldiers in charge of protecting the Levantine coast.[10]

Both Christians and Muslims from the Beirut area appealed to al-Awza'i for help. In one story, a local Christian in Beirut sought al-Awza'i's help in resolving a tax dispute. When his appeal to the tax administrator failed, al-Awza'i gave the Christian the 80 dinars he thought he was owed, and even tried to return the jar of honey the Christian had given him to thank him for his efforts.

Further reading

  • Judd, Steven C. (2019). 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Amr al-Awza'i. London:
    ISBN 978-1786076854
    .

References

  1. ISBN 978-3-11-028534-5
    . The prominent traditionalists, such as Abū ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī (d.157/774) and Ahmad b. Ḥanbal (d.241/855)..
  2. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_sim_2021
    . Imām al-Awzāʿi was of Sindhī origin and his forefathers might have belonged to those D̲j̲āťs who fell into the hands of Muḥammad b. al-Ḳāsim and were sent as prisoners of war to ʿIrāḳ
  3. ^ "سير أعلام النبلاء". shamela (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  4. ^ The Voice of Islam. Jamiyat-ul-Falah. 1967. p. 96. The origin of al - Awza'i is traced from Sind, wherefrom he or his parents came to Syria...
  5. ^ Isḥāq, Muḥammad (1955). India's Contribution to the Study of Hadith Literature. University of Dacca. p. 199.
  6. ISBN 978-90-04-07026-4
    . Imām al-Awzā'i was of Sindhī origin and his forefathers might have belonged to those Jāts who fell into the hands of Muhammad b. al-Kāsim and were sent as prisoners of war to 'lrāk.
  7. ^ John Esposito, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Oxford University Press, 2003
  8. ^ Steven C. Judd, "The Early Qadariyya" in The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology, ed. Sabine Schmidtke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 47-48.
  9. JSTOR 10.20851/j.ctt1t3051j.13
    . Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  10. ISBN 9789042947986
    .

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