Amasyalıdır. Hıfz-ı Kur’ân etdikten sonra biraz tahsîl-i ilm ü irfân edib Çilehâne şeyhi es-Seyyid eş-Şeyh İbrâhim Efendi’ye hizmet ve sohbet-i şerîfesinde tasfiyye-i derûn ederek 1140’da Ya’kûb Paşa Câmii kayyumu oldu. 1163 senesi recebinin yirmi dokuzunda vefât etdi. Meşâhîr-i sulehâdan müttakî, mübârek nefes, sâhib-i ilm ü ma’rifet, nîk-siret bir zât idi.
Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Ahmed Efendi-Mübârek Hâfız
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 198 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)
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Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk
In Modern English
He was a native of Amasya. After memorizing the Qur'an he learned some learning and culture. He served the Çilehâne sheikh es-Seyyid eş-Şeyh İbrâhim Efendi and purified his heart in his company. In 1140 [1727-28] he became custodian (kayyum) of the Ya'kûb Pasha Mosque. He died on the twenty-ninth of Receb 1163 [1750]. He was one of the famed righteous, a God-fearing man, of blessed breath, of learning and culture, and pure of heart.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- hıfz-ı Kur'ân: memorizing the Qur'an; one who has memorized it is called a hâfız
- tasfiyye-i derûn: purifying the inner world, the heart
- kayyum: official who looks after the upkeep and order of a mosque
- sulehâ: the righteous, the devout
- müttakî: one who fears God and keeps from sin
- mübârek nefes: one whose company and prayer are held to be blessed
- nîk-siret: good-natured, pure in essence
The Çilehâne Lodge and the Ya'kûb Pasha Mosque
The Çilehâne mentioned in the text is the Yâkub Pasha Dervish Lodge in the Pîrler district of Amasya; it is known among the people as the Çilehâne Lodge. Pazarlıoğlu Yâkub Pasha, beylerbeyi of Ankara, had this lodge, attached to the Halveti order, built and endowed in 815 [1412] for the Mufti Sheikh Gümüşlüzâde Abdurrahman Çelebi. Its waqf deed was registered in February 1413 by the kadı of Amasya, Mevlânâ Rükneddin Mahmud, nicknamed Sarı Kadı. In the middle of the building is a masjid, and around it are halvet rooms and dervish cells. The building, damaged in the 1939 Erzincan earthquake, was repaired in 1967.
After Gümüşlüzâde, the sheikhdom of the lodge passed to a series of sheikhs that the people of Amasya call the "silsiletü'z-zeheb" (golden chain). Among the later sheikhs are named Sheikh Mehmed Efendi (d. 1099/1688), followed by Seyyid İbrâhim Efendi and his son Seyyid Mehmed Efendi. The person Hüsameddin calls "the Çilehâne sheikh es-Seyyid İbrâhim Efendi" may be the same as the Seyyid İbrâhim Efendi in these records; but the source gives no definite match. The mütevelliship of the lodge also passed to Mü'eyyed Çelebi and his children; this family is the Mü'eyyedzâdes of entry 642.
Whether the "Ya'kûb Pasha Mosque" of which Hâfız Ahmed Efendi was custodian is the masjid of this lodge has not been understood with certainty from the sources at hand. No information on Ahmed Efendi was found in other sources.
Bibliography
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 198–198. amasya.bel.tr