A similar ruling is recorded in al-Fatāwā al-Hindiyyah (5/280). Al-Qudūrī¹, in his large legal manual Sharḥ al-Karkhī under the chapter “Matters Disliked,” writes:

Bishr ibn al-Walīd narrated to us from Abū Yūsuf, who related that Abū Ḥanīfah said: “No one should supplicate Allah except through Him, and I dislike a person’s saying, ‘by the fastenings of majesty of Your Throne,’ or ‘by the right of Your creation.’” This was also Abū Yūsuf’s view, though he added: “The fastening of majesty of His Throne is Allah Himself, so I do not object to that phrase. What I do dislike is a person’s saying, ‘by the right of so-and-so,’ or ‘by the right of Your prophets and messengers,’ or ‘by the right of the Sacred House and the Sacred Monument.’”

Al-Qudūrī comments: “Asking by means of His creation² is impermissible, for the creation has no right over the Creator; therefore it is unanimously forbidden.”

Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah cites this in al-Qāʿidah al-Jalīlah, and al-Zabīdī states in his commentary on the Iḥyāʾ (2/285): “Abū Ḥanīfah and his two companions held it disliked for a man to say, ‘I ask You by the right of so-and-so,’ ‘by the right of Your prophets and messengers,’ or ‘by the right of the Sacred House and the Sacred Monument,’ and the like, for no one has any right over Allah. Likewise, Abū Ḥanīfah and Muḥammad considered it disliked for the supplicant to say, ‘O Allah, I ask You by the fastenings of majesty of Your Throne,’ whereas Abū Yūsuf allowed it once the narration on the matter reached him.”³