Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 224 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Evâil-i hâlinde Bafra’dan Amasya’ya gelip Ürgüblü el-Hâc Ahmed ve tilmizi Suruklu el-Hâc Ali Efendilerden tahsîl-i ulûm edib ders-i âm ve Payaslı el-Hâc Mehmed Efendi’nin 1225’de vefâtında Sultân Bâyezîd kürsî şeyhi oldu.
İki defa icâzet verip şöhret-i ilmiyyesi artdı. Meclis-i a’yân a’zâsı olup ulemâyı yeniçerilere karşı müdâfa’â etdi. 1238’de vefât eyledi. Devlet ve teceddüd taraftarı olup meşâhîr-i ulemâdan sâlih, vâ’iz, takrîr ü ifâdesi mükemmel idi.
In his early youth he came from Bafra to Amasya and studied under Hacı Ahmed Efendi of Ürgüp and his student Hacı Ali Efendi of Suruklu; he gave public lectures. On the death of Hacı Mehmed Efendi of Payas in 1225 [1810], he became kürsü sheikh of Sultan Bayezid.
He granted licenses twice and his scholarly fame grew. As a member of the council of notables he defended the ulema against the Janissaries. He died in 1238 [1822-23]. He was a man who favored the state and renewal, one of the well-known scholars, pious, a preacher, and flawless in his exposition.
What stands out in the entry is that Ahmed Efendi defended the ulema against the Janissaries in the council of notables and favored the state and renewal. The period of the entry covers the years of the Nizâm-ı Cedîd and the Kabakçı Revolt (entry 733); according to the TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, the Janissaries and the ulema together opposed the reforms in this period. Hüsameddin does not interpret this opposition to the Janissaries and gives no detail of the event. The source does not say on which occasion he opposed the Janissaries.
Hacı Ali Efendi of Suruklu is named as a student of Hacı Ahmed Efendi of Ürgüp; Hacı Ahmed Efendi of Ürgüp also appears in entry 733 among the teachers of Ahmed Bey. No source other than Hüsameddin could be found on Ahmed Efendi of Bafra. No information on this person was found in other sources.