How do we respond to those who cite the hadith of the blind man to justify their innovated tawassul?

The questioner : The hadith... The question is about the riddle in the question of the blind man to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)?

The Shaykh : The hadith of the blind man has no relation to this tawassul either. He is asking here about the hadith of the blind man that those who practice innovated tawassul cite as evidence. In the hadith of the blind man, the blind man first sought tawassul through prayer and righteous deeds, and secondly through the supplication of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). This does not involve tawassul through his person (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). Perhaps you all remember the story of this blind man, which is recorded in "Sunan al-Tirmidhi," "al-Mustadrak of al-Hakim," and "Musnad Imam Ahmad" with a sound chain: Pay attention now: why did the blind man come to the Messenger? Did he come to seek tawassul through his person, as we or some of us do today with Allah, while the Messenger of Allah is absent from us, and we receive the karamah that Allah has reserved for him there? Why did he come to him? If he had wanted to seek tawassul through him, he would not have come to him as we do, but he came to say to him: "O Messenger of Allah, supplicate to Allah for me that He may grant me health." So he came asking for supplication; he did not come to seek this innovated tawassul. But the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), who is rightly described in the Noble Qur'an , directed him to the best path, but he did not disappoint his hope. He said to him: meaning, I have fulfilled your request for which you came to me. So he directed him to the permissible matter, which is to seek tawassul through his supplication (peace and blessings be upon him), not through his person, and he directed him to the best, which is to be patient, as happened with that The point is: this old woman was better than the blind man. Look at people, as he (peace be upon him) said: The old woman preferred to continue being thrown, but on the condition that she not expose herself to what is forbidden, which is the exposure of part of her 'awrah. Since if she was patient, Paradise was for her, she preferred the Hereafter over this world, but she combined what she preferred with the request for covering, so the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated for her, and she would be thrown but not exposed.