Tolerance in the Sanad of Medical Traditions

Reliance on traditions (aḥādīth) in the realm of obligatory precepts requires the preliminary conditions of authoritative (ḥujjiyat). However، since some have in relation to rules of conducts (sunan) relied on the rule of “tolerance in the evidences of sunan” and have consequently brought up the tolerance in the conditions of authenticity of sunan; and irrespective of the truth or untruth of resorting to the rule in the field of the preferable religious acts (mustaḥabbāt) and the detestable things (makrūhāt)، which is disagreed upon by the proponents and the opponents، the question is whether – given the applicability of the rule itself – this tolerance can be extended to the medical traditions. The subject followed up in this article is the application of this rule in medical traditions. As the studies indicate، it seems that the execution of the rule of tolerance in the realm of medical traditions face serious obstacles.