The Burial of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the Dome in the Prophet’s Mosque

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, some of those who worship graves are involved in placing domes over graves, specifically the dome present in the Prophet’s Mosque. Also, some believe that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was buried in the mosque. What is the guidance, may Allah preserve you?

Answer:
We have said this repeatedly: the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was not buried in the mosque, but rather in his house, which was outside the mosque. The wisdom behind his burial in his house, as has been repeated to you, is the statement of Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that she feared it would be made a mosque. If he had been buried in al-Baqi’ or in another place, it would have been made a place of prayer for people. So his burial in his house was to protect him from extremism. And because there is a hadith that says:
So when the time came, the house of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) remained outside the mosque during the caliphates of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, Mu’awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, and ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, until the time of al-Walid ibn ‘Abd al-Malik. He decided to expand the mosque from the eastern side. This was a wrong opinion without a doubt, an improper action. He expanded from the eastern side and included the rooms. This was not done with the consultation of the scholars or by taking the opinion of the scholars.
The bottom line is that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was not buried in the mosque, but rather in his house, which was outside the mosque. As for the fact that rooms were included in the mosque, this is an improper action by the one who did it, and it is a mistake. But what can be done after it has happened? However, praise be to Allah, the grave is now connected, and no extremism occurs there, nor does what happens at the graves in other countries occur there. This is from the protection of Allah for His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Ibn al-Qayyim says: So the Lord of the Worlds responded to his supplication and surrounded him with three walls. Yes.