这个学派以叙利亚学者阿卜杜勒-拉赫曼·本·阿瓦扎伊命名，他生于公元708年，出生于巴勒贝克。

This Madh-hab is named after the Syrian scholar ‘AbdurRahman ibn al-Awzaa’ee who was born in Ba’labek in the year 708

公元八世纪时，他成为著名的圣训学者之一，并反对在《古兰经》和逊奈有明确经文可依的情况下过度使用类比推理（盖亚斯）及其他形式的推理。伊玛目奥扎尔迪（Awzaa'ee）大部分时间生活在贝鲁特，最终于公元774年在那里去世，但他的教法学派（Madh-hab）在叙利亚、约旦、巴勒斯坦和黎巴嫩以及西班牙广泛传播。

CE. He became known as one of the major scholars of Hadeeth of the eighth century CE and was opposed to the excessive use of Qiyaas and other forms of reasoning in cases where clear texts from the Qur’aan and or Sunnah were available. Imaam Awzaa’ee spent most of his life in Beirut, eventually dying there in the year 774 CE, but his Madh-hab became widespread in Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon as well as in Spain.

他的教法学派在叙利亚一直是主流，直到公元十世纪，属于沙斐仪教法学派的艾布·祖尔阿（Abu Zar’ah Muhammad ibn ‘Uthmaan）被任命为大马士革的法官。艾布·祖尔阿开始设立奖励：凡能背诵《穆赞尼简本》（Mukhtasr al-Muzanee，一部沙斐仪教法的基础著作）的学生，可获得一百第纳尔的奖金。自然地，这一做法使沙斐仪教法学派在叙利亚迅速传播，而奥扎伊的追随者人数则持续减少，直到十一世纪已无一人可寻。132 然而，他对教法学的贡献得以记录，至今仍保存在大多数比较教法学的书籍之中。

His Madh-hab remained the main school of thought in Syria until the tenth century CE, when Abu Zar’ah Muhammad ibn ‘Uthmaan of the Shaafi’ee Madh-hab was appointed judhe of Damascus. Abu Zar’ah began the practice of giving a prize of one hundred dinars to any student who memorized the book, Mukhtasr al-Muzanee, ( a basic book of Shaafi’ee Fiqh). Naturally, this practice caused the Shaafi’ee Madh-hab to spread rapidly in Syria and the number of Awzaa’ee’s followers continued to dwindle until the eleventh century when none were to be found.132 However, his contributions to the science of Fiqh were recorded and remain to this day in most of the books of comparative Fiqh.