and likewise to those who seek help from someone dead or absent, or who call upon the dead, supplicate to Allah through them, or believe that supplication at their graves is better than in homes and mosques. They transmit a hadith that the experts unanimously agree is fabricated:

“When matters prove too difficult for you, turn to the occupants of graves.”

This is merely a fabrication by someone who opened the door to associating partners with Allah.

Adherents of innovation and polytheism who imitate them—among idol worshippers, Christians, and misguided Muslims—experience phenomena at shrines that they suppose are miracles granted to the righteous, although they actually come from devils. For example, they may place a pair of trousers beside a grave and find them knotted, or place a possessed person beside it and see that his devil has left him. The devil does this to lead them astray. If you sincerely recite the Verse of the Throne there, this comes to nothing, for affirming Allah’s oneness drives the devil away. Thus, when a devil carried one of them through the air and he said, “There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah,” he fell. Another example is that one of them may see a grave split open and a person emerge from it, whom he supposes to be the deceased, although it is a devil. This is a vast subject that cannot be treated fully here.

Since withdrawing into caves and wildernesses is among the innovations that neither Allah nor His Messenger prescribed, devils frequently take refuge in caves and mountains: the Cave of Blood on Mount Qāsiyūn; Mount Lebanon on the Syrian coast; Mount al-Fath at Aswan in Egypt; mountains in Rūm and Khurāsān; mountains in al-Jazīra; and other such places