Abstract
As in the past, the disease phenomenon is keeping its actuality today as well. Among diseases, the contagious ones caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people in different periods of history. This situation is also valid for Islamic history. Diseases were also seen in some areas during the period of Prophet Muhammed. One of them, and perhaps the most important one, is the contagious disease called "tâʿûn". The Prophet (PBUH) has given various information and advice about it to help people avoid it. One of these advice today is called quarantine/isolation or curfew which means the prohibition of entry and exit to the area where the disease is located or isolating an infected person from the society. This subject is confirmed by many sound hadith narrations. Throughout the history of Islam, a considerable amount of knowledge on the subject has been gathered and thus an important amount of literature has been formed. Hadith commentaries have a significant role in this literature. In the approach of some muhaddith to the Nabawi advice, it can be seen that the Prophet's purpose regarding health was ignored. This study contains the narrations about the disease of tâ’ûn which has a contagious feature and approaches of hadith expositors to these narrations. In addition, attention was drawn to how Prophet's health-related advice was handled as a theological issue by revealing hadith criteria for expounding these narrations.