The ruling on asking a traveler or others for supplication?

The questioner : Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, what is the ruling on asking a traveler for supplication?

The Shaykh : . I see that what the Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) held is that it is not recommended for a person to ask anyone to supplicate for him specifically.
If he asks for the general people, or asks a specific righteous man whose supplication is expected to be answered, there is no harm. An example of the first is asking a person whose supplication is expected to be answered to supplicate for the Muslims to be delivered, and this is not good for him. Or asking this person whose supplication is expected to be answered to plot against a certain person, and this is also not good for him, because he is a doer of good. But if he asks for himself, it is not appropriate if he says, "Supplicate to Allah for me." This is not appropriate. And if it happens that he does so, let him intend the one who performed the supplication, because the one who supplicates for him becomes a doer of good and has a reward. He should not intend his own benefit in that place.
And there is another excuse in this. First, the questioner is usually in front of the one asked, because he will not ask him unless he believes that the one asked is...

The questioner : I mean, how?

The Shaykh : I do not expect you to like it. Second, it causes the one asked to feel a favor over him. And there is no need for that. Third, he may rely on the supplication of this Muslim and not supplicate for himself, and this is a great harm.
Third, he intended that it is contrary to the apparent meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted: . And his Lord did not answer him, and there is no objection to the Companions asking the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to supplicate for them, due to the clear difference between the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the one who is asked.
And for this reason, when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke about seventy thousand entering Paradise without reckoning or punishment, Ikamah ibn Mahsan stood up and said, "Supplicate to Allah to make me among them." He said, "You are among them." So he asked for supplication for himself, and he said, "You are with yourself." What? Fine.