التداوي

Seeking Medical Treatment Is Encouraged

Spiritual Remedy General Tonic & Immunity

A general instruction to actively seek treatment for illness, framing every disease — old age excepted — as having a discoverable cure.

hasan graded

تَدَاوَوْا، فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمْ يَضَعْ دَاءً إِلَّا وَضَعَ لَهُ شِفَاءً، غَيْرَ دَاءٍ وَاحِدٍ: الْهَرَمُ

“Seek treatment, for Allah has not created a disease without also creating a cure for it — except one: old age.” (meaning, not a literal translation)

Sunan Abi Dawud 3855; Sunan al-Tirmidhi 2038 Hasan Sahih

Ibn al-Qayyim's Commentary

Scholars including Ibn al-Qayyim cite this as the doctrinal basis for treating medicine and scientific inquiry into disease as religiously encouraged, not fatalistically avoided.

Caution

General principle, not a specific treatment — always pair with the specific medical guidance appropriate to the condition.