Is there evidence in Hajar’s (peace be upon her) saying, “If you are a source of relief, then relieve me,” that it is permissible to supplicate to an absent person?

The questioner:
The Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, says: The statement of Hajar, the wife of Ibrahim (peace and blessings be upon him), when she heard a voice and said, “If you are a source of relief, then relieve me.”

The Shaykh:
If you have a source of relief, yes.

The questioner:
He says: Is this evidence that it is permissible to supplicate to an absent person regarding what he is capable of?

The Shaykh:
No. She heard the voice and said, “If you have a source of relief, then relieve me.” She was not asking Jibril; rather, she was saying, “If you have a source of relief, then relieve me,” because she needed someone to relieve her. She heard the voice and knew that someone was there, that someone was present. So she asked this person, whose voice she had heard, to relieve her. Yes, so Jibril was present; he was not absent. Yes.