Rumaythah ibn Abi Numayy

Asad al-Din Rumaythah, a son of Abu Numayy I, was Emir of Mecca seven times between 1301 and 1345, and each time the sultans in Cairo had the last word. Proclaimed joint emir with his brother Humaydah in October 1301, he was arrested after the hajj of 1302 and taken to Cairo in chains, then restored in 1305.

He spent decades feuding with Humaydah and later another brother, deposed, jailed and reinstated by Cairo in turn. From 1321 he openly backed Zaydi Shi'ism in Mecca. In 1343 or 1344 his sons Thaqabah and Ajlan forced him to abdicate for sixty thousand dirhams; the sultan reversed it, but in October 1345 he formally yielded Mecca to Ajlan at the dome over Zamzam.

He died on 3 March 1346. At his funeral the Shafi'i chief qadi stopped the Zaydi imam from leading the prayer.