Amasyalıdır. Ya’kub Paşa câmi-i şerîfi kayyımlarından Hacı İbrâhim bin Osmân’ın mahdûmudur. Hızır Efendi telâmizesinden dâmâdı el-Hâc Osmân ve Koca Müfti el-Hâc İsmâil Efendilerden ikmâl-i tahsîl edib ders-i âm ve Ya’kub Paşa Câmi-i şerîfine hatîb ve imâm oldu.
1123’de vefât eden üstâdı el-Hâc İsmâil Efendi’nin yerine Hüseyin Ağa müderrisi ve 1127 senesi zilhiccesinde [156] Amasya müftüsü oldu. Ancak fetvâyı zühd ve takvâya muvâfık göremediğinden 1130 senesi saferinde istifâ edib fetvâdan çekildi.
Ba’dehû yine tefsîr ve hadîs tedrîsine muvâzabet ederek 1141 senesi saferinde dâr-ı naîme rihlet etdi. Meşâhir-i ulemâdan fâzıl, fakîh, gâyet müteşerrî, zâhid, afîf, neşr-i ulûm ve tedrîse mükibb idi.
Mahdûmu Hâfız es-Seyyid Osmân Efendi yerine Ya’kub Paşa Câmii imâmı ve hatîbi olup pîr iken 1191 senesi cumâdelûlâsının beşinci günü vefât etdi. Bunun mahdûmu es-Seyyid Abdülkerîm Efendi imâm ve hatîb olduysa da on sekiz gün sonra vefâtıyla mahdûmu es-Seyyid Mehmed Emîn Efendi imâm ve hatîb oldu.
1196’da Mehmed Emîn Efendi de vefât edib mahdûmu es-Seyyid Abdulbâki Efendi imâm ve hatîb oldu. Ancak bu da 1204’de bilâ-veled-i zükûr vefât eylediğinden imâm ve hitâbet âhara verildi. Bunların hepsine de Kayyımzâdeler dendi. [157]
In Modern English
He was a native of Amasya, the son of Hacı İbrahim bin Osman, one of the attendants (kayyım) of the Yakub Pasha Mosque. He completed his studies under Hacı Osman, a pupil and son-in-law of Hızır Efendi, and under Koca Müftü Hacı İsmail Efendi, gave public lessons, and became preacher and imam of the Yakub Pasha Mosque.
In 1123 [1711-12], when his teacher Hacı İsmail Efendi died, he took his place as müderris of the Hüseyin Ağa Madrasa, and in Dhu'l-Hijja 1127 [1715] he became mufti of Amasya. But since he did not find the issuing of fatwas in keeping with asceticism and piety, he resigned in Safar 1130 [1718] and withdrew from the fatwa office.
Afterwards he went on teaching Qur'anic exegesis and hadith, and died in Safar 1141 [1728]. He was among the well-known scholars: learned, a jurist, strictly bound to the sharia, ascetic, chaste, and devoted to spreading knowledge and teaching.
His son Hâfız Seyyid Osman Efendi became imam and preacher of the Yakub Pasha Mosque in his place and died, an old man, on the fifth day of Jumada al-Ula 1191 [1777]. His son Seyyid Abdülkerim Efendi became imam and preacher but died eighteen days later, and his son Seyyid Mehmed Emin Efendi became imam and preacher.
In 1196 [1781-82] Mehmed Emin Efendi also died, and his son Seyyid Abdülbâki Efendi became imam and preacher. But he died in 1204 [1789-90] leaving no male child, so the posts of imam and preacher were given to someone else. All of them were called Kayyımzâdes.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- kayyım: attendant serving in a mosque
- telâmize: pupils
- dâmâd: son-in-law
- ikmâl-i tahsîl: completing one's studies
- ders-i âm: title of a müderris who gave public lessons
- zühd ve takvâ: keeping away from worldly pleasures and being wary of God
- istifâ: leaving a post
- muvâzabet: persevering, carrying on
- dâr-ı naîme rihlet etmek: to die (to depart for paradise)
- müteşerri': strictly bound to the sharia
- afîf: chaste, honorable
- bilâ-veled-i zükûr: leaving no male child
Resignation from the Office of Mufti
What stands out in the entry is İsmâil Efendi's withdrawal of his own accord from the muftiship of Amasya, which he held for about two years. Hüsameddin gives the reason as follows: the mufti did not find the issuing of fatwas in keeping with asceticism and piety. The details of the reason are not opened up in the text; it is relayed here as the man's own conscientious judgment.
The Building Bearing the Name of Yakub Pasha
The building known in Amasya by the name of Yakub Pasha is the Halvetî lodge founded in 1412 in the Pîrler district by Pazarlıoğlu Yakub Pasha, Beylerbeyi of Ankara; among the people it is called the Çilehane Lodge. Its waqf deed was registered in February 1413 by the then kadı of Amasya, Mevlânâ Rükneddin Mahmud, known as Sarı Kadı, and the lodge was built and endowed for Müftü Sheikh Gümüşlüzâde Abdurrahman Çelebi. The building has a masjid, cells for seclusion (halvethane), dervish cells, a hall for communal prayer (tevhidhane) and a tomb; it was damaged in the 1939 Erzincan earthquake and repaired in 1967. An article examining its waqf deed and its place in early Ottoman architecture has also been published. Whether the building Hüsameddin calls the "Yakub Pasha Mosque" is the same as this lodge could not be established with certainty from the sources read; the identification could therefore not be verified.
The Kayyımzâdes
The text shows the posts of imam and preacher passing within one family from generation to generation: after İsmâil Efendi his son Osman (d. 1777), then Osman's son Abdülkerim (who died eighteen days later), his son Mehmed Emin (d. 1781-82) and his son Abdülbâki (d. 1789-90). Because Abdülbâki left no male child, the post left the family. The family name (Kayyımzâdes) may derive from the attendant's post that İsmâil Efendi's father held in the mosque; the text does not say so explicitly.
What the Search Could Not Find
Searches on Hızır Efendi, Koca Müftü Hacı İsmail Efendi and the Hüseyin Ağa Madrasa found no information. No other source with information on this person was found.
Bibliography
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 311–312. amasya.bel.tr
- Hasan Karataş, "An Idiosyncratic Building in Amasya? Early Ottoman Architecture and the Waqfiyya of the Yakub Pasha Çilehane-Mosque", Muqarnas, 37/1 (2020), p. 291–313.