Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 318 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Amasya a’yânından Hâfız el-Hâc Mehmed Ağa bin el-Hâc Mustafa Ağa bin el-Hâc Abdülkâdir Ağa’nın oğludur. Ammizâdesi olup kethüdâ-yı rikâb-ı hümâyun olan el-Hâc Hüseyin Ağa’nın dâiresinde tefeyyüz ederek dergâh-âlî gönüllüsü oldu.
Hacı Hüseyin Ağa’nın 1188’de irtihâli üzerine Amasya‘ya avdet etdi. Caniklizâdelerin şiddetini görüp Hicâz’a gitdi. Ba’dehû hacıyân ve a’yân meclislerine a’zâ ve hacıbaşı olup 1200 hudûdunda vefât etdi. Meşâhir-i a’yândan idi. Oğulları es-Seyyid Ali, Ahmed Ağalardır.
He is the son of Hâfız Hacı Mehmed Ağa, son of Hacı Mustafa Ağa, son of Hacı Abdülkâdir Ağa, of the notables of Amasya. He trained in the household of his cousin Hacı Hüseyin Ağa, kethüda of the imperial stirrup, and became a volunteer of the Sublime Porte.
On the death of Hacı Hüseyin Ağa in 1188 [1774-75] he returned to Amasya. Seeing the harshness of the Caniklizâdes he went to the Hijaz. Afterwards he became a member of the councils of pilgrims and notables and hacıbaşı, and died around 1200 [1785-86]. He was a well-known notable. His sons are Seyyid Ali and Ahmed Ağa.
The "Caniklizâdes" of the text refers to the family of Canikli Hacı Ali Pasha. According to Yücel Özkaya's article the Amasya sanjak had been given to Canikli Ali Bey as a malikâne on 1 June 1772. In November 1776 the people of Amasya complained that Canikli Ali Pasha, his sons and his supporters oppressed and mistreated them, and in the same month asked in a second petition for the malikâne to be abolished. Hüsameddin's sentence "seeing the harshness of the Caniklizâdes he went to the Hijaz" agrees with the complaints voiced in Amasya in those years. Canikli Ali Pasha lost his rank for rebellion in 1779 and fled, was pardoned in 1781, and the governorship of Amasya was given to his son Mikdad Pasha as an arpalık. The text does not say when Mehmed Ağa returned from the Hijaz.
Services at the imperial stirrup were among the main duties of the gatekeepers. The kapıcılar kethüdası was heavily occupied with the divan and imperial stirrup services, while the kapıcıbaşıs handled the appointment and promotion of the gatekeepers. The identity and term of office of Hacı Hüseyin Ağa in this post could not be found in other sources. No information was found in other sources either on the class of "volunteers of the Sublime Porte" or on the Hacı Kadirzâde family; the scope of the office of hacıbaşı in Amasya also could not be verified.