Sayyid Abdurrahman (Lak: Жамалуттиннул арс АьблурахIман Гъази-Гъумучиял, Arabic: السيد عبد الرحمن ، ابن جمال الدين الحسيني الغازيجوموكي الداغستاني) was the son-in-law of Imam Shamil,[1] a participant in the Caucasian War and the author of the chronicles of Dagestan in the 19th-century during the time of the Caucasian Imamate.

[6] From his father he received a good education at home, after which he studied in many villages of Dagestan,[7] he knew Arabic and was well acquainted with Muslim law, grammar and poetry.

[13] Abdurrahman actively participates in the defense of Gunib, being near the imam and accompanies Shamil for negotiations with general Aleksandr Baryatinsky.

Having obtained permission from the authorities to bury his wife in her homeland in the village of Gimry, Abdurrahman no longer returns to Kaluga, but goes to Tbilisi, where he is enrolled in the Dagestan permanent police.

[23][24] In 1871, Abdurrahman entered the disposal of the head of the Dagestan region, with the appointment of a lifelong pension for him and moved first to Buynaksk, and from there to his native Gazikumukh.

[25] Later, in 1883, he would write his last work: "The Fall of Dagestan and Chechnya due to the incitement of the Ottomans in 1877," which academician Krachkovsky refers to as written "by direct order of the Russian authorities.