Molla Hasan al-Samuni

Al-Shaqa'iq says that Mulla Hasan ibn Abd al-Samad al-Samuni was a learned and virtuous scholar, who loved the poor and the needy, and was a disciple of Sufi shaykhs. He studied with the scholars of Anatolia and then entered the service of Mulla Khusraw. He acquired all the sciences, the foundational and the derived, the rational and the legal ².

He then taught at several madrasas and moved to one of the eight madrasas. He became the teacher of Sultan Muhammad Khan al-Fatih, then appointed him judge of the victorious army and afterwards judge of the city of Constantinople. He had a good reputation and a sound method in his judgeship. He was of good nature, strong in Islam, careful in observing the law and abstaining from doubtful things, and he copied out many books in his own hand. He died in the year 901 ¹.