Awwam ibn Khuwaylid

ʿAwwām ibn Khuwaylid (العوام بن خويلد) was an Arab Qurayshi soldier who died in the Fijar Wars. According to a Shia narration, his father Khuwaylid ibn Asad adopted Awwam in Egypt. 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:
 * the companion Zubayr ibn al-Awwam,
 * Saaib ibn al-Awwām
 * Hind bint al-Awwam, spouse of Zayd ibn Haritha al-Kalbi, the adoptive son of Muhammad
 * Abdulkaaba ibn al-Awwam.
 * Zaynab bint al-Awwam, spouse of her cousin, Hakim ibn Hizam ibn Khuwaylid