Born in the village of Yeşilalan (Holaysa) in the Çaykara district of Trabzon (around 1866). A late-Ottoman scholar and Naqshbandi-Khalidi (Gümüşhanevi branch) sheikh, he trained many students at the madrasa in his village and, declining the mastership of the Gümüşhanevi lodge offered to him after İsmail Necati Efendi with the words "fame is a calamity," spent his life teaching and giving spiritual guidance in his homeland. He died on 3 September 1929.