He also said:

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As for deliberately choosing to pray, supplicate, and worship in a place where the prophets did not deliberately choose to pray and worship, but where they are merely reported to have passed through, stopped, or lived—as explained above, neither Ibn ʿUmar nor anyone else used to do this. It does not constitute following them, either in an action they performed or in an intention they had.

It is well known that the places where the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, stayed—whether travelling or residing somewhere—such as the routes he took during his Hajj and military expeditions, his stopping places on his journeys, the houses in which he lived, and the houses he would sometimes visit, from among … (1)

“So do not take graves as places of prayer, for I forbid you to do so.”

These explicit statements of his establish that taking their graves as places of prayer is forbidden, even though they are buried there, are alive in their graves, and visiting their graves to greet them with peace is recommended. Nevertheless, visiting them to pray beside them and taking them as places of prayer is forbidden. It is well known that he prohibited this only because it leads to associating partners with Allah, and he intended that