The Ruling on Praying in a Cemetery and the Response to Claims Regarding Prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque

Question:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade turning graves into mosques, even if they are behind the worshippers, as long as they are in the cemetery, their prayer is not valid, as long as they are in the cemetery, in the courtyard of the cemetery, even if the graves are behind them. You asked Shaykh Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him) about the traditions of last Friday regarding the invalidity of prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and with such a thing you stirred up that one of the young men, one of the young men, no, in the first religion, based on the verse, it is not authentic, how the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and his companions delivered the sermon.

Answer:
My brother, you did not understand the situation. The grave of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) is not in the mosque, but rather it is in his house (peace and blessings be upon him). When the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) died, he was buried in his house, to protect him from people being led astray by him, because if he had been exposed and buried in Al-Baqi', people would have been led astray by his grave, so he was buried in his house to protect him. For this reason, Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said, "If it were not for that, meaning the fear of fitnah, his grave would have been exposed, but it was feared that it would be turned into a mosque."
So he was buried in his house. His house was outside the mosque, it was outside the mosque in Aisha's room, in the house of Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her). The houses of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) were all outside the mosque. When the Caliphs expanded the mosque from the western side, they left the houses of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) as they were, and did not expand the mosque from the eastern side, to avoid fitnah and to follow the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
This continued through the era of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, the era of Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him), and the era of 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, until al-Walid ibn 'Abd al-Malik came and wanted to expand the Prophet's Mosque (peace and blessings be upon him) due to the large number of people, so he brought the house of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) into the mosque by mistake, and the scholars did not agree with this, and it was not done with their consultation. This was a mistake, and it was not the action of the scholars, but rather a sovereign action based on his ijtihad (independent legal reasoning) (may Allah have mercy on him and forgive him), but it was a mistake. So the grave of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is not in the mosque, and the mosque was established from the time the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived in Madinah, ten years before his death (peace and blessings be upon him), and there were no graves in it, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was not buried in it. This is not an argument to take the mistake of bringing the house in as a justification for praying at the graves, no, it is not permissible. People pray in the Mosque of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), which is his mosque, and in which prayer is worth a thousand prayers in any other place, and they do not intend the grave, nor prayer at the grave. Yes.