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Children’s Picture Books

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Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Is it permissible to buy and/or sell children’s books with illustrations? These would be early reading picture books.

Answer:
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Walaikum assalam,

The fatwa of leading Hanafi scholars from Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere, is that pictures in children’s books take the same ruling as dolls for children: they are permitted to buy and sell, because they too serve a similar (if not even more obvious) educational interest. Many (or even most) Hanafi scholars from the Indian Subcontinent disagree.

And Allah alone gives success.

Faraz Rabbani.

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