The Ruling on Seeking Blessing from the Spatial Traces of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)

Question:
May Allah reward you. The Honorable Shaykh says: I hope for a detailed explanation of the ruling on seeking blessing from the spatial traces of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and how one seeks blessing from them?

Answer:
One does not seek blessing from the spatial traces of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) at all. For example, his chamber, his pulpit, the places where he stayed during travel, or the Cave of Thawr, or the Cave of Hira, or what they call the House of Birth, if it is true that this is the house where the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was born, despite the doubt in that, and so on. One does not seek blessing from spatial traces; because this is something that the people of the Salaf, the Companions, the Successors, and the blessed generations did not do, and they are the people who know best what is prescribed, and they knew these places. Our righteous predecessors knew these places, and yet they did not intend them nor worship in them, because they knew that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not direct this to his Ummah. The one who wants good, the door of good is itself: you are in the mosques, call upon Allah in the mosques, the lawful mosques, the Sacred Mosque, the Prophet’s Mosque, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. As for you being obligated to go to the traces and pray in them and supplicate in them, that is something the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not prescribe. This was not found; this is from wisdom, not from the wisdom of good. So we do not do anything that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not do, nor his Companions after him, nor the blessed generations, and we do not bring something better than what they did. The one who is eager for good, there are the mosques, and there are the three mosques. The prayer in the Sacred Mosque is worth a hundred thousand prayers. If you complete a prayer there, it is five hundred prayers. The field is open. As for the caves, the tongues, and the stations, these are from the actions of the superstitious, not from the actions of the people of the Sunnah. There is no good in innovating a bid'ah (religious innovation), nor is there any reward in it, but rather there is sin in it.
This is from one aspect. The second aspect is that this leads to shirk (associating partners with Allah), because if these traces are ordered to be visited for prayer and supplication, this leads to shirk by seeking blessing from them, rubbing against them, and calling for aid from their owners. There is no doubt that our religion came to block the means that lead to shirk. For this reason, it was prohibited to pray at graves, prohibited to supplicate at graves, and prohibited to build on graves, plastering graves, lighting them, and writing on them. All of this is from opening the means that lead to shirk. One should be cautious of these matters and not inquire about them. Yes.