In February 1832 Islam Ağa, the adjutant-major of the 13th Infantry Regiment, died in the army hospital in Acre. On his death bed, he asked a friend of his, Hüseyin Ağa, the lieutenant-colonel of the 8th Infantry Regiment, to take charge of his funeral. He specifically requested him to sell his belongings, buy him a shroud and have a shaykh “recite the Koran on his soul.” Taking this to be his friend’s will, Hüseyin Ağa sold the property of his deceased friend so that he could meet the expenses of the funeral. Before the funeral had been conducted, however, the military headquarters in Syria intervened asking Mehmed Bey, the colonel of the 13th Infantry Regiment, to confiscate the deceased man’s property and sell it and hand in the money to the divan, since all his belongings, it was claimed, were miri money, i.e. public property. When he was informed about this, Hüseyin Ağa presented a petition to Ibrahim Pasha citing in it the reasons for his actions and requesting permission to fulfill his friend’s will. Ibrahim Pasha referred the petition to Ibrahim Yeğen. Ibrahim Yeğen “gave no answer.”

XREF: Connects to earlier claims about state appropriation, conscription, and the army's extractive relationship with soldiers (e.g. loc 938, 935 about unpaid soldiers).

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 1088