Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 143 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Fuzalâdan Amasyalı Hatîb Kâsım Efendizâde Muhyiddîn Mehmed Efendi’nin mahdûmudur. Amasya’da doğup 918’de pederiyle İstanbul’a gitdi. Şeyhu’l-İslam Kemal Paşazâde Ahmed Şah Efendi’nin halka-ı tedrîsinde iktisab-ı kemalat ederek ders-i am, müşârün-ileyhden mülazım, ba’dehû müderris oldu.
İstanbul ve Bursa medreselerini devrederek sahna gelip Sultân Fatih Medreselerinden birine müderris iken 960’ta vefât etdi. Âlim, fâzıl, edib, vakûr bir mahdûm-ı kâmildi.
He was the son of Muhyiddîn Mehmed Efendi, son of Hatîb Kâsım Efendi of Amasya, one of the virtuous scholars. He was born in Amasya and in 918 [1512] went to Istanbul with his father. Maturing in the teaching circle of Şeyhülislam Kemalpaşazâde Ahmed Şah Efendi, he became a ders-i âm; from him he became a mülazım, and later a müderris.
Going round the madrasas of Istanbul and Bursa, he rose to the Sahn; while müderris at one of the madrasas of Sultan Fâtih, he died in 960 [1553]. He was a scholar, virtuous, a man of letters, dignified, a mature man.
Ahmed Efendi's father is Muhyiddîn Mehmed Efendi, called in the sources Hatîbzâde, İbnü'l-Hatîb or Hatîb Kāsımoğlu. He was born in Amasya on 27 Shaban 864 [17 June 1460] and received his first education from his father, then from Mevlânâ Sinan Pasha. After professorship in Amasya he taught in Bursa at the Çendik and Ahmed Pasha madrasas and in Istanbul at the Mustafa Pasha Madrasa, and in the time of Bâyezîd II was teacher of Prince Ahmed, governor of Amasya. After the prince's death he worked at one of the Üç Şerefeli madrasas in Edirne and at the Sultan Bâyezîd Madrasa in Amasya, and was appointed teacher at the madrasa newly built by Yavuz Sultan Selim near Hagia Sophia. Hüsameddin's record "in 918 he went to Istanbul with his father" corresponds to this Istanbul period that began with Yavuz's accession.
Muhyiddîn Mehmed Efendi was later promoted to one of the Sahn madrasas and to the Edirne Sultan Bâyezîd Madrasa, and stayed in the Sahn at eighty akçe a day until his death. He died on 2 Dhu al-Qa'da 940 [15 May 1534] and was buried at Eyüp. The best-known work of this scholar, considered a master of tafsir, hadith, fıkıh and qira'at as well as of subjects such as jafr, wafq and music, is the Ravzu'l-Ahyâr, prepared as an abridgement of a work by Zamakhshari; the work was printed several times in Cairo and was translated into Turkish by Âşık Çelebi for Selim II. The İnbâ'ü'l-Istafâ fî Hakkı Âbâ'i'l-Mustafâ that he wrote for Süleyman is a treatise arguing that the mother and father of the Prophet are among the people of salvation; it is regarded as the first of the treatises written on this subject in the Ottoman period.
The striking side of the entry is the meeting of father and son around the same great scholar. According to Hüsameddin, Ahmed Efendi was trained in Kemalpaşazâde's teaching circle and became his mülazım. When his father Muhyiddîn Mehmed Efendi died in May 1534, Kemalpaşazâde led the funeral prayer. Kemalpaşazâde, however, had died about a month earlier, on 16 April 1534; this contradiction of dates in the sources suggests that one of the two dates is wrong and should be read with care. No information on Ahmed Efendi himself was found in other sources. His year of death, 960, is the year Prince Mustafa was executed; but there is no record requiring a link to be drawn between the two events.
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