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A warrior to whom one of the best known places of visitation in Sivas belongs.
🔴 This record rests on an indirect source: the figure has no independent encyclopaedia article; what follows are the sentences given by the article on the city of Sivas.
In the source he is mentioned under the name Abdülvehhâb b. Buht. It is recorded that he took Sivas and its surroundings, but that the city was retaken by the Byzantines the following year and that he was martyred (113/731).
His Tomb and Complex — The tomb of Abdülvehhâb Gazi stands inside the mosque on the hill of Akkaya, about one kilometre to the east of the city. From the endowment deed of Kemâleddin b. Râhat, dated 721 (1321), it is understood that a cemetery had formed around the tomb. The Abdülvehhâb Gazi quarter of the city is among the examples surviving to our day of the place this shrine holds in the life of the city.
Differing Scholarly Views
🔴 The limit of the record is the limit of the source. What is in hand is an article on a city, not an article of biography. The source gives no information about his place and date of birth, his family, his education, or whether he was a Companion; this is why those sections have not been opened in this record.
The date of his death is tied to a record of conquest and recapture. The date 113 (731) is given by tying it to the year in which the Byzantines retook the city; it is not an independent record of death.
The cemetery around the tomb formed later. From the endowment deed of 721 (1321) it is understood that the cemetery formed around the tomb; that is, the area of visitation as it is today took shape centuries after the figure's own age.
Sources
- TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (DİA) — Ömer Demirel · N. Burhan Bilget · vol. 37, pp. 278-284, entry “SİVAS”
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