A hadith about visiting my grave and the ruling on visiting the Prophet's grave

Question:
May Allah greet you. This questioner says: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Whoever visits my grave, my intercession becomes obligatory for him." Is this hadith authentic? And is visiting it obligatory every year, and with 'Umrah and Hajj?

Answer:
This hadith is not authentic. All hadiths regarding the visit are not authentic according to the scholars. "Whoever visits my grave, my intercession becomes obligatory for him," "Whoever visits my grave and the grave of my father in one year, Paradise becomes obligatory for him," and other such fabricated narrations are all not authentic. What is prescribed is to send prayers upon him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: wherever you are. So sending prayers upon him is in every place, and sending salam upon him is in every place; it is not restricted to going to al-Madinah. But if one visits the city intending the mosque, and if he intends the mosque and the grave follows it, he sends salam upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and his two companions and the people of al-Baqi'. The intended visit is the mosque; the visit is to the mosque. And if he intends, along with the mosque, to send salam upon the Prophet, there is no harm; because sending salam does not follow the visit to the mosque. For this reason, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: , do not tie your saddles for a grave, not for his grave, and not for the grave of anyone else (peace and blessings be upon him). This is the correct position held by the meticulous scholars of knowledge. Rather, one ties the saddle for the mosque, and the grave follows it. So if he reaches the mosque, he prays in it and sends salam upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and his two companions. And so it is with all graves: one does not tie the saddle for them. But if he reaches the city, he visits the city, and if he wishes to send salam upon the graves, he sends salam upon them and visits them in every city. As for intending the graves by tying the saddle, this is prohibited. And so, one does not tie the saddle to any place for its virtue except . These three mosques are the ones for which the saddle is tied. As for Quba, the mosque of Quba follows; if one visits al-Madinah, it is recommended for him to visit Quba, but one does not tie the saddle for it from far away. Rather, it is visited by the one who visits al-Madinah, who prays in the mosque of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). And it is recommended for him to visit the mosque of Quba and pray in it, due to his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): "Whoever purifies himself in his home and then goes to the mosque of Quba and prays two rak'ahs, it is like an 'Umrah." And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to visit it every Saturday in his life; he used to visit the mosque of Quba and pray in it.
And the point is that the hadiths containing the call to visit his grave, and that whoever visits his grave his intercession becomes obligatory for him, or Paradise becomes obligatory for him, or whoever visits my grave and the grave of my father in one year—and Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) and others have pointed this out, and we have also pointed this out in the book of the rites of Hajj.