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Are we allowed to buy dolls for our daughters?
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
The dolls in use nowadays were not familiar in the time of the worthy ancestors - Allah's Mercy be upon them. For that reason today's Islamic scholars have two opinions:
(A) Prohibition of these dolls because they look like the statues which are strictly forbidden by true Islamic legitimacy. Also, dolls today don't look like the dolls in the time of the Prophet which were crafted in textile and cotton, whereas dolls today are finely crafted and even programmed with sound.
(B) Lawfulness of the doll, because its use comes within general texts of that which is legal. We find it is reported by Bukhari from ‘Aa’ishah 
that she said: “I was playing with the dolls (doll girls) at the home of the Prophet and I had female friends playing with me. When the Prophet entered the house, they (girls) hid from him, so he sent them to play with me”.
We advise the questioner to have her children use other toys, like cars, trains, … instead of the toys that are imitations of living beings with a soul. This way we will avoid disagreements, and we think this opinion is predominant and safer.
Allah knows best.
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