Awwam ibn Khuwaylid

ʿAwwām ibn Khuwaylid (Arabic: العوام بن خويلد) was an Arab Qurayshi soldier who died in the Fijar Wars.

[1] According to a Shia narration, his father Khuwaylid ibn Asad adopted Awwam in Egypt.

[2] He was a member of the Asad tribe from the Banu Quraysh and the brother of Islamic prophet Muhammad's wife Khadija bint Khuwaylid.

Awwam was the spouse of Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib and they had five children:

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