What is the ruling on seeking intercession from a created being?

The questioner : Your Eminence the Shaykh, peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and blessings.

The Shaykh : Peace, and the mercy and blessings of Allah, be upon you.

The questioner : I ask you by the right of those who ask you about the hadith. I said, and we benefit from this hadith the permissibility of seeking intercession from created beings, so we hope you will clarify this with some detail?

The Shaykh : No, I did not say that, but in this is evidence that it should be understood from it that those who ask have a right upon Allah the Exalted, which is that He answers them, and He is the One who obligated that upon Himself to the end of it. As for intercession for a created being, intercession for a created being to a created being, there is nothing wrong with it, meaning in the sense that I ask a person to intercede for me with another person, and the person interceding is alive and able to intercede, then there is nothing wrong with it. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Intercede and your intercession will be accepted, and Allah will fulfill for His Prophet what He wills." And he said to Usamah ibn Zayd when he interceded for the woman who was seeking to be helped with the matter of the stolen goods and denied it: "Do you intercede in a limit of the limits of Allah?" And he (peace and blessings be upon him) said So the intercession of a person with a person is not a problem, provided that the intercessor is alive and has the authority to do so.