al-Suli

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Suli, the chess-player and historian, author of "al-Awraq fi Akhbar al-Abbasiyyin", who died in 335 AH in the caliphate of al-Muti'. ¹

He gathered a book on the reports and poetry of Abu Tammam. ¹ Al-Suyuti relied on him in "History of the Caliphs". ²

Al-Mas'udi relates that he had a promise from al-Mu'tadid, so he composed an ode in which he mentioned Badr, and al-Mu'tadid laughed and ordered him given what he had promised. ³

He also relates that al-Suli played chess with al-Mawardi in the presence of al-Muktafi, and beat him. ⁴