Al-Rumaysaʾ is the nickname of Umm Sulaym bint Milhan, a female Companion of Medina, mother of Anas ibn Malik and wife of Abu Talha. The Prophet ﷺ said: “I saw myself entering Paradise, and there I was beside al-Rumaysaʾ, the wife of Abu Talha” (al-Bukhari 3679). In another report she is called al-Ghumaysaʾ (Muslim 2456).
Rumaysaʾ is a diminutive of ramsaʾ, from the root r-m-ṣ: lexicographers connect the word with ramaṣ, the slight secretion that gathers in the corner of the eye. The Arabs also gave the name al-Rumaysaʾ to a star, one of the two Shiʿra, because of its small size and faint light. It was a nickname of Umm Sulaym; the meaning “small, graceful” sometimes given has no support in the dictionaries. The name is now much loved in Turkey (Rumeysa) and the Maghreb.
In Arabic
رُمَيْصَاءرميصاء
Transliteration
Rumayṣāʾ
Root
ر م ص
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Is Rumaysa in the Quran?
No: neither the name Rumaysa nor its root appears in the Quran. A name can be beautiful and permissible without coming from the Quran.
