Clarification that the general prohibition on image-making excludes girls' toys due to the presence of specific evidence.

The Shaykh : We come now to this point here. Among the hadiths regarding what is forbidden, the one who made the toys for Aisha’s daughters—whether it was she or her mother—does this hadith include her? The answer is no. This is a general text, and this is a specific text that is excluded from the general text. It is said that every image-maker is in the Fire, except for the one who makes toys for girls in the house that the girl or small children play with. Likewise, it is an image that prevents the angels from entering. Why? Because this is the house in which the Lady Aisha used to play with girls' toys, and it was in this house that Jibril (peace be upon him) would descend upon Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), calling to him and conveying to him what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) commanded him to convey to His servant and messenger, Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). And it was in this house, and it was this Lady Aisha, who narrates to us that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to her one day: Jibril is in the middle of the house where these images were. She did not see anything, but she believed Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Therefore, in this house, Jibril would descend and enter, and there were such toys in it.
So, these toys are excluded from the prohibition. And of this nature is also a hadith in Sahih Muslim, and among the benefits that were not preserved for the Muslims except by a woman, because she was unique in narrating this story, is the following. Her name is al-Rabi'ah, al-Rabi'ah bint Mu'awwidh. She said: Al-ihn is cotton, yes, that is right. So, we conclude from these two that the use of toys for small children is permissible, and they are excluded from the general texts to some of which we referred earlier. Then we arrive from this to an important matter, which is the statement of the permissibility of some images that are necessary—I say necessary—for scientific aspects or social matters or the like, where the benefit in them is realized and the harm and corruption from them are negated. In this case, it is permissible to use the image for the one who needs it, and it is also permissible to make it, because making and possessing are linked to each other. What is permissible to possess is permissible to make, and what is permissible to make is permissible to possess for the one who needs to possess it.
And we do not go far in giving examples of some necessary images, especially in this time, such as identity cards and passports, without which a person today cannot travel from one country to another except with these pieces of books and papers called identity or passports. And the strictness of some people today, who do not give weight to the scientific methods to some of which we referred earlier in the way of reconciling the Prophetic hadiths, has led them to negate the benefit that points to us from this hadith of Aisha on one hand and the hadith of al-Rabi'ah bint Mu'awwidh on the other. They negated the benefit of these two hadiths and returned to the previously mentioned hadiths, saying that these hadiths, in their generality, indicate the prohibition of using all images. Therefore, there is no image for an identity card and no image for a passport. And this was one of the reasons that stirred up some Arab Islamic states against them, so some of them were thrown into prisons, and the matter reached some of them that they cannot perform Hajj if they are in a country outside Saudi Arabia, for they cannot enter Saudi Arabia except with a passport, unless by stealth and theft, and in this case, they may fall into what is not usually praiseworthy. All this came about due to the non-application of the scientific rules of taking the specific with the general. It is said that this is excluded from the general. So this is an example of how many people deviate from the correct path due to the lack of... the scientific rules upon which the efforts of scholars were exerted for centuries and years and hundreds of long years.