Al-Awzāʿī, Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAmr (88–2 Ṣafar 157/706–22 December 774), a Syrian jurist, muḥaddith and founder of a school of jurisprudence which had followers in Syria and al-Andalus until the 4th/10th century.

Some sources say that his family were either Yemenis captured during the Muslim wars of conquest (al-futūḥāt; al-Masʿūdī, 3/304) or from Sindh (al-Dhahabī, Siyar, 7/109); howe…