The problem of common solutions for nonlinear equations has significant theoretical and practical value. In this article, we first introduce a new concept of a pair of
(
α
,
Θ
)
\left(\alpha ,\Theta )
-type contractions, and then, we present some common fixed point results for the contractions in complete metric spaces. Finally, our results are applied to consider the existence, uniqueness and approximation of common solutions for two classes of nonlinear fractional differential equations.