Khayr al-Din al-Talsami al-Safari

Mulla Khayr al-Din Khatul ibn Talsaman ibn Hajji Safar, al-Talsami al-Safari the Hanafi; his ancestor had come from Persia to the lands of Rum fleeing Genghis Khan's cataclysm and settled near Kastamonu, a man of miracles whose prayers were answered at his grave. Khayr al-Din read the elements of the sciences at home, then studied under Ibn al-Bashir at Bursa, Mawlana Khusraw's brother at Edirne, hadith and tafsir under Mulla Khayr al-Din al-'Ajami, then Mulla Yusuf Bali ibn al-Fanari at Bursa, and finally attached himself to Mulla Yakan, famed with him for complete virtue. ²

He was sent to the Muzaffar al-Din al-Raqama school at Tashkopru near Kastamonu with thirty dirhams a day for teaching and fifty from the Karat-i-nuhas revenue, living there in growing comfort; when Sultan Mehmed took those lands from Isma'il Beg he dismissed him, and Khayr al-Din went to Karat-i-nuhas, preaching every Friday until he died there in 879. ²