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The Shaykh: "The Dispensation Regarding Children's Toys: If there is a type of statue that does not display an intention of veneration or luxury, and does not entail any of the previously mentioned prohibitions, then Islam does not narrow its chest regarding it, nor does it see any harm in it. This is like the toys of young children that are made in the shape of dolls or cats, or other beasts and animals, for these images are worn out by the play and the fiddling of the children with them. Aisha, the Mother of the Believers, said: It is agreed upon. In another narration: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to her one day: . She said: My daughters. He said: . She said: A horse. He said: . She said: Wings? He said: . She said: Or have you not heard that Solomon, son of David, had horses with wings? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) laughed until his molars were visible. Abu Dawud narrated it.
The daughters mentioned in the hadith are the dolls played with by young girls and boys, and Lady Aisha was young in age at the beginning of her marriage to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). Al-Shawkani said: In this hadith is evidence that it is permissible to allow young children to play with statues. It was also narrated from Malik that he disliked for a man to buy that for his daughter. And Qadi Iyad said: Playing with dolls for young girls is a dispensation, and it is like the toys of children. The author says, this is his personal opinion, "like the toys of children: statues made of candy, sold on festivals and the like, which are then quickly eaten."

The Shaykh: This is something we do not agree with at all. And before explaining the reason for that, it is necessary to draw attention to a subtle point that the author passed over quickly. The hadith of Lady Aisha is often misunderstood by some people in a way that this hadith does not indicate. The hadith of Lady Aisha playing with dolls is one thing, and the guardian of the girl buying these toys ready-made from other than the girls is another thing, especially if these toys that are bought are made in Europe, especially if these bought images represent the customs of the disbelievers and the upbringing of the disbelievers of their girls. This is one thing. And the making of dolls by young girls from scraps made internally for the young girls, for the purpose of practicing the principles of home decoration, is another thing. And this other thing is what the hadith of Lady Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) playing with dolls indicates, not something else. Therefore, one should not be deceived by what is said today that the hadith of Aisha indicates the buying of toys by the guardian of the girl from the market, especially the toys that have spread and become widespread in the lands.
And among the subtle jurisprudence of Imam Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) is that he alerted us to this reality. Before he saw the harms of the images that come to us from Europe in the name of children's toys, before Malik saw it with his own eyes, he saw it with his penetrating mind and said what the author quoted without commenting on it with anything. And it was narrated from Malik that he disliked for a man to buy that for his daughter. This is the reality that many people overlook. Your buying toys for the girl is not the same as allowing her to make the toy with her hand. For a certain reason, the Wise Lawgiver permitted, after absolutely forbidding three-dimensional images in particular, for a certain reason and a profound wisdom, the making of toys for the girl, but did not allow this making to be from outside, nor did He allow it to be bought from there. Therefore, what the author appended by saying: "And like the toys of children: statues made of candy and sold on festivals," this appending is erroneous, there is no doubt about that, from two aspects. The first aspect: It was previously explained that these toys are not made at home. What does the girl gain from that? Second: This candy, this candy is perhaps made for her in molds of a certain type, and something else. But he says on festivals, so who makes them? Which nation on the face of the earth makes three-dimensional sweets in the shapes of birds, butterflies, rabbits, and the like? The Muslim nation or the disbelieving nation? None of us doubts that this is not an Islamic custom. And in that case, the author has forgotten what he mentioned at the beginning of the research, that the secret of the angels not entering the house in which there are images is because the one who takes the image imitates whom? The disbelievers. So if we today permit the making of sweets in the shapes of images and statues, then we are imitating the images, and this is an error. And the second error is appending this type of toy to the toys of scraps that remain and last, whereas this candy will be eaten by the child and he will not benefit from it in any way except that his taste grows up and he becomes accustomed to the French disbeliever's taste, and he comes to it with the images since his infancy, and this is something Islam does not want at all from the Muslims. Yes.