What is the ruling on facial images in children's toys?

Question:
Is the stronger position regarding children's toys that a dispensation is granted for them because they are children, if they have faces?

Answer:
There is scholarly disagreement on this. Among the evidence is the hadith of 'Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her): "She had dolls with her." Some scholars said that leniency is shown in this matter because they are treated with contempt. Other scholars said: No, what 'Aishah had were the ordinary dolls that the Arabs had, which they sewed... things that were not images.
Therefore, the safest course is to avoid images; the safest course is to leave them out, in accordance with the hadiths in which the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the image-makers and said: "They will be the most severely punished of people on the Day of Resurrection." He also said to 'Ali: "Do not leave any image without erasing it." The hadiths are general, and what is with 'Aishah regarding the dolls is to be understood as not being the usual kind of images, the images that image-makers create. They are rags to which they attach a stick, they put rags on it, they put this and that, so that it looks like an image.