would bring my playmates in so that they could play with me. This report is found in al-Bukhari 10/433, Muslim 7/135, Ahmad 6/166, 233, 234 (this wording is Ahmad’s), and Ibn Saʿd 8/66. In another version she says that she had banat (dolls); whenever the Prophet ﷺ entered, he would draw his cloak over himself to screen them from view. Abu ʿAwana explains: “So that she would not stop playing.” Recorded by Ibn Saʿd 8/56 with a sound chain. Another narration, cited later, tells that she fashioned a horse with two wings out of scraps of cloth. Al-Hafiz (Ibn Hajar) comments: “This hadith proves the permissibility of keeping figurines of girls and other toys so that young girls may play with them; it is therefore an exception to the general ban on images. Qadi ʿIyad stated this categorically, transmitting it from the majority, who also allowed the sale of dolls for girls so that, from an early age, they might be trained in running their households and caring for children.” 2. Al-Rubayyiʿ bint Muʿawwidh said: “On the morning of ʿAshura, the Prophet ﷺ sent word to the surrounding villages: ‘Whoever began the day not fasting should abstain for the rest of it, and whoever began it fasting should continue his fast.’ We used to fast that day and make our young children fast with us, God willing. We would go to the mosque and make for them a toy of dyed wool; if one of them cried for food, we would give him the toy until it was time to break the fast. In another wording: ‘If they asked us for food we gave them the toy to distract them until…’”