Historical course and Evolution of medical books attributed to infallible Imams (A.S)

Medicine has always attracted a lot of attention in all societies and in Islamic history also medical issues were always welcomed in a way that many have spent time writing and collecting medical narrations. This study was performed with the aim of explaining the abundance, evolution process and how to write medical books attributed to the imams, its contributing factors and causes during history and different hadith periods. Analysis

This is a descriptive, analytical-historical study based on library data gathering method.The data was gathered by referring to source books, indexes and source and translation softwares and national library and Ayatollah Marashie Najafi's library's sites, books containing medical narrations attributed to Imams and information facilitates comprehension of evolution process of the mentioned reasons, writings and attributions.

This research illustrates as we move away from the era of Imams not only there seems to be a boost in single-unit medical narrations but also those who have endeavoured writing and gathering these narrations seem to include more explanations concerning the related medical topics.

Relying on historical studies it was clear that writing medical books attributed to Imams during different hadith periods has been different in the way that during early times these books were written by hadith narrators and those books'names were therefore not attributed to Imams whereas during history the same type of books were attributed to Imams and in addition to those mentioned some were also written by hadith narrators and even some other writers.