Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 161 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Amasya fuzalâsından “Küçük Hâce” demekle meşhûr Kadızâde Mehmed İlmî Efendi’nin büyük oğludur. Pederinden ikmâl-i tahsîl edib ders-i âm ve müderris-i benâm olup Amasya medreselerini devrederek Kameriyye-i Tokat müderrisi oldu.
Ba’dehû silk-i kazâya girip kasâbâta kadı ve mükerreren Amasya nâibi olup 1058’de vefât etdi. Meşâhîr-i ulemâdan edîb, şâir olup mahlâsı “Rahmî” olduğu sonradan anlaşıldı. Bunun mahdûmu hâcegân-ı divân-ı hümâyûndan Lütfullah Efendi’dir.
He was the elder son of Kadızâde Mehmed İlmî Efendi, famous among the scholars (fazıl) of Amasya as "Küçük Hâce" (the Little Master). Having completed his education under his father, he became a well-known müderris who gave lectures open to everyone (ders-i âm). Passing through the madrasas of Amasya in turn, he became müderris of the Kameriyye Madrasa in Tokat.
Then he entered the kadi career, served as kadı in towns and several times as naib (kadı deputy) of Amasya, and died in 1058 [1648-49]. He was one of the famous scholars, a man of letters and a poet whose pen name was later found to be "Rahmî." His son is Lütfullah Efendi, one of the hocas of the Imperial Divan (its senior-ranking scribes).
The name of Ahmed Efendi's father has caused confusion because of several scholars known in the Ottoman Empire of the seventeenth century by the epithet "Kadızâde." Kadızâde Mehmed Efendi, known as the pioneer of the Kadızadeli movement, was born in Balıkesir in 1582, took this epithet because his father was a kadı, and also wrote verse works under the pen name "İlmî." The sources also call him "Küçük Kadızâde" so that he is not confused with Sofyalı Kadızâde Mehmed Efendi (d. 1041/1631-32), who bore the same epithet. Evliya Mehmed Efendi, who lived in the same age and was from Amasya, is also known by the name "Kadızâde." A study surveying the manuscript works of scholars raised in Amasya, on the other hand, counts as an Amasya native someone called "Kadızâde Küçük Mehmed İlmî b. Abdülkadir Amâsî (d. 1635)" and attributes to him works called Kitâb-ı İmân, Risâletü'l-akâid and Fetâvâ-yı İlmî Efendi.
Whether the person Hüsameddin calls "Küçük Hâce" is the same person as the Balıkesir-born Kadızâde Mehmed İlmî could not be settled with the sources that could be read. Although the name, pen name and year of death (around 1635) are the same, one is counted as from Balıkesir and the other from Amasya; it is also possible that two separate persons have been confused. For this reason, on the matter of the father of the son Ahmed Efendi, the safest course is to rely on Hüsameddin's record that he was a müderris called "Küçük Hâce" in Amasya.
No information was found in the sources that could be read about the poems Ahmed Efendi wrote under the pen name Rahmî, the life of his son Lütfullah Efendi, and the Kameriyye Madrasa in Tokat.
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