al-Sharqi ibn al-Qutami

Al-Sharqi ibn al-Qutami, one of the akhbaris whom al-Mas'udi mentions. The data hold nothing else about him. ²

Al-Mas'udi says that al-Sharqi ibn al-Qutami, al-Haytham ibn Adi and Abu Mikhnaf estimated the dead at Siffin from both sides at seventy thousand, among them twenty-five of Badr. ²

• His year of death, lineage and works need an additional source.