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Are there any jurists who permitted playing with dolls (bridal dolls) in an absolute sense, without the restriction that the player be pre-pubescent, and this regardless of Imam al-Khattabi's and Ibn Hajar's justification of our mother Aisha playing with dolls before puberty?

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Ibn Hibban narrated the hadith permitting young girls to play with pictorial toys. Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar pointed to the permissibility of acquiring dolls and toys for girls to play with, and that the majority of scholars permitted their sale for the purpose of training girls. Al-Bayhaqi and Ibn al-Jawzi held the view that the concession for Aisha was before the prohibition of images. Ibn Hazm restricted the permissibility to young girls only. Iyad believed in the permissibility of playing with them to train girls in household matters, and the majority of scholars hold this view. Aisha’s hadith about Solomon’s winged horse indicates a concession in this regard. Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar preferred the view that the incident of playing occurred in Khaybar and that Aisha was young at the time.

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