Awza'i sect of Sunni Islam.

The legal school of Imam Al Awzaa'ee is one of the most popular schools in the 8 ^th  century and is widespread in Spain, North Africa and Syria, before disappearing in Andalusia due to the hegemony of  Maliki School, and is definitely off the 11 ^th  century in Syria.

Basically, it was the madhhab official in these two regions. Then, during the reign of Caliph Umayyad Hicham I st , the Maliki madhhab replaced it and became the official madhhab of those in power, and was followed by mass people completely forsook the madhhab of Imam Al Awzaa'ee. This is because the Caliph Hisham I first followed the madhhab of Imam Malik ibn Anas and therefore the fatwa official plan were enacted by this school. Also, with many trips Spanish lawyers to the city of Medina and the many questions and answers that resulted from this their talks with Imam Malik, the Maliki opinion spread at a high speed. A few years after the death of Hisham I st , the famous disciple of Imam Malik, Yahya Ibn Yahya Al Laythi would definitely implement the Maliki madhhab in Andalusia , with the collection of hadith of Imam Malik called Al Muwatta ° , and teach the Maliki fiqh to a considerable number of people. Similarly, the Spanish jurist 'Abd ul Malik Ibn Habib traveled to Medina in order to tap the knowledge of Imam Malik through his disciple Ibn Al Qasim, then back to Spain, wrote his treatise on jurisprudence Al Wâdihah became a reference in the Spanish students  . For their part, the kings of the Maghreb began to agree to follow mainly the fatwa of Imam Ibn Al Qasim , based on Mudawwanah of Imam Ibn Sa'id Sahnun At Tanûkhî  .


In Syria, his madhhab is the main school of fiqh to 10th  century, when Zur'âh Imam Abu 'Uthman Ibn Muhammad, a Shafi'i , was appointed qadi of Damascus . Indeed, it gives a price of 100 dinars to any student who manages to memorize the book Mukhtasar ul-Muzani , a basic book of Fiqh Shafi'i. This practice is causing the expansion of the Madhhab Shafi'i madhhab at the expense of Al-Awzaa'ee, which is steadily decreasing until its extinction in the xi th  century  .
In any event, his contributions to the science of fiqh are numerous and archived until our days in the books of fiqh advanced, Abu Yusuf and the preservation of knowledge Awzaa'ee Al-Usul al-fiqh in its Book Al-radd ala al-siyar Awzaa'ee .