Asking the blessing from some places, ruins, and people, dead or alive.
One of the innovated novelties is to ask the blessing from creatures. It is a sort of idolatry and a commerce by which some mercenaries plunder properties of naïve people. Asking the blessing from something is to request good effect where it exists in this blessed thing and it flows with it. Whereas asking the blessing from where it exists is never achieved except from Allah Who owns that and has the ability to donate. He is the One Who can descend and confirm the Blessing, whereas the creature is unable to donate or confirm this blessing.
As a matter of fact, asking the blessing from places, ruins, and people, dead or alive is prohibited because it is either polytheism if one believes that this man (or thing) is useful and beneficial by itself. Or it is a means of polytheism if he believes that visiting and touching this man (or thing) is a reason by which Allah will benefit him. However, the companions used to ask the blessings by keeping some of the Prophet’s hair or saliva. In fact, this is especially for the Prophet at the time he lived between them because they did not do that with his grave after his death. Moreover, they did not keep on visiting places where he used to sit or pray asking for the blessing, and it should be worthier not to do that with pious or good people.
The rest of the Prophet’s companions did not ask the blessing from the well-known patrons of Allah like Abu Bakr and Omar and many others, neither in their lifetime nor after their death. They (the companions) did not go to Hira’ cave for Prayer or worship, and did not go to At-Tur (Mount) where Allah spoke to Musa (Moses). Furthermore, the place where the Prophet used to pray in his Mosque and the place where he used to step on by his noble feet have been left out and no one among our good ancestors once asked the blessing from them by touching or kissing. This is obviously because he did decree for his Ummah (people) to do that and Islamic scholars have conformed that this act is of no basis in his legislation.