The Case of a Fasting Person’s Sniffling or Use of Eardrops or Enema

1. Abu Ali al-Ash’ariy has narrated from Muhammad ‘Abd al-Jabbar from Safwan ibn Yahya from Hammad ibn ‘Uthaman who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, ‘Can a man who complains of an ear-ache apply medicine to it?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not harmful.’”