Ayman (Name)

Ayman (transliteration: Ayman, Arabic: أيمن) is an Arabic name for boys that means “right-handed”, “on the right (as opposed to left) side”, “blessed”, “prosperous”, “lucky”, “auspicious”.¹²

There are five Companions of the Prophet Muhammad named Ayman:

• Ayman bin Umm Ayman أيمن بن أم أيمن
• Ayman bin Ubaid al-Habashi أيمن بن عبيد الحبشي
• Ayman bin Khuraim أيمن بن خريم
• Ayman bin Ya`laa al-Thaqafai أيمن بن يعلى الثقفي
• Ayman (freed slave of a Zubair) أيمن مولى الزبير

The word Ayman is used three times in the Quran:

And We called him from the right side of the Mount, and brought him near in communion.³

O Children of Israel! We have delivered you from your enemy, and promised you by the right side of the Mount, and sent down to you manna and quails.⁴

When he reached it, he was called from the right side of the valley, at the Blessed Spot, from the bush: “O Moses, it is I, God, the Lord of the Worlds.⁵

Below is the name Ayman written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Ayman written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo, al-Muʿjam al-Wasīṭ (1998), الْأَيْمن.
2. Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876), يمن.
3. The Quran, verse 19:52.
4. The Quran, verse 20:80.
5. The Quran, verse 28:30.