HE WAS AMONG THE PROMINENT ANATOLIAN SAINTS WHOSE LIFE IS LEAST KNOWN.HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF “KUREYSHAN HEARTH”,WHICH IS A WIDE SPREAD HEAD IN ANATOLIA WITH HAVING GREAT NUMBERS OF FOLLEWERS,WHO BELIEVE THEY HAVE CAME TO ANATOLIA FROM KHORASAN.THE MAINLY LIVE IN TUNCELI,ADIYAMAN AND AGZIANTEP REAGIONS.DIFFERENT LINEAGES WERE OBTAINED ABOUT THE HEARTH FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS.OLDEST OF THOSE LINEAGES WERE DATED BACK TO THE TIME OF SELJUK EMPEROR ALAADDIN KEYKUBAT.THERE ARE DIFFERENT TOMBS AND MAUSOLEUMS IN DIFFERENT PROVINCES WHICH ARE BELIEVED TO BE BELONGING HIM.THESE TOMBS ARE IN ADIYAMAN,GAZIABTEP AND AFYON.THE ONES IN ADIYAMAN AND ANTEP ARE JUST MAUSOLEUM TOGETHER.THIS MAUSOLEUM WAS BUILT IN THE FORM OF A DOME-SHAPED MANNER BELONGING TO 13TH CENTURY.AND THE MADRASAH NEARBY WAS DESIGNED AS A HIGHER EDUCATION FACILITY,WHICH SUGGESTS THAT HAJJI KUREYSH WAS ALSO KIND OF SCIENTIST.HAJJI KUREYSH,WHO IS A MEMBER OF SAYYID MAHMOUD KHARANI’S FAMILY THAT HE LEFT IN HE REGION WHERE PREVIOUSLY CALLED DERSIM,THEN GOES TO ADIYAMAN AND THEN SETTLES IN A MOUNTAIN PASTURE HOUSE IN THE KAYABAS VILLAGE OF GAZIANTEP’S YAVUZELI TOWN.AN OTTOMAN COMMANDER AND A GROUP OF SOLDIERS ACCOMPANYING HIM PAY A VISIT TO HADJI KUREYSH ,WHOM THEY HEARD ABOUT.THE COMMENDER ASKS HADJI KUREYSH, “OUR HORSES AND MEN ARE HUNGRY.IF YOU ARE A SAYYID THEN YOU SHOULD FEED THEM.”HADJI KUREYSH REPLIES, “SURE I WILL OFFER A HOSTING TO YOU”,AND POURS DOWN 8- KILOGRAM BARLEY INTO A LARGE MORTAR AND TELLS COMMANDER THAT THE AMOUNT OF BARLEY WOULD BE ENOUGH FOR ALL HORSEES.THE COMMANDER GETS ANGRY AND SAYS “HOW COULD YOU ALL OF THE HORSES BECOME FULL UP WİTH SUCH ASMALL AMOUNT OF BARLEY?”KUREYSH INSISTS THEM TO BRING HORSES AND ALL OF THEM EAT TO THEIR FILL.WHEN IT CAME TO FEED THE SOLDIERS KUREYSH BRINGS A SMALL SAUCEPAN WITH SOME FOOD IT AND SAYS, “ALL OF YOUR SOLDIERS WILL EAT THEIR FILL FROM THIS SAUCEPAN OF MEAL PREPARED BY MY WIFE MERCAN KHATUN.”THE FOOD IS ENOUGH FOR THE COMMANDER AND THE GROUP OF SOLDIER ACCOMPANYING HIM AND THERE STILL REMAINS SOME FOOD IN THE SAUCEPAN.THE ASTONISHED COMMANDER THEN GIVES 7 VILLAGES AND AMILL TO HADJI KURYSH IN THE NAME OF OTTOMAN STATE.