Al-Kāfi - The Book of Fasting

Chapter: The Case of a Fasting Person’s Sniffling or Use of Eardrops or Enema ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ أَنَّهُ سَأَلَهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَحْتَقِنُ تَكُونُ بِهِ الْعِلَّةُ فِي شَهْرِ رَ٠َضَانَ فَقَالَ الصَّائِ٠ُ لا يَجُوزُ لَهُ أَنْ يَحْتَقِنَ. 3.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from who has said the following: “I once asked him (the Imam) (a.s.), about a man who performs an enema because of an illness in the month of Ramadan. He (the Imam) said, ‘Performing an enema is not permissible when fasting.’”