cÖmer el-Fuɔâdî would likely have been a transitional figure in the history of the Şacbâniye whether he accepted the role or not. His accession to the successorship represented the de facto end of an era, for he held the distinction of being the first head of the Şacbâniye too young to have been trained in the Sufi path by Şacbân himself. This did not mean that he was entirely cut off from the founder, having known him as a child. He would, however, have been aware that Şacbân had predeceased the vast majority of Kastamonu's population by the time he came to power.

Fu'âdî was born some time in the year 967/1560 by his own account. He met Şacbân Efendi through the agency of his mother and father when he was a youth, and witnessed the events of Şacbân's funeral in the spring of 978/1569 at the age of nine. Still, his youth meant that he never had the chance to build a meaningful personal relationship with this towering figure, who by the beginning of the eleventh/seventeenth century had become increasingly remote from living memory. Fuɔâdî, despite some initial awkwardness, would eventually rise to the challenges raised by growing chronological distance and revive Şacbân-ı Veli's memory for future generations.