There are three ways to visit graveyards:
1. To visit graveyards to supplicate to Allah (Azza wa Jalla ) in favour of the dead or to remember the Hereafter. This type is permissible.
2. To visit graveyards to recite Qur'an, offer Salah, or slaughter animals by them. This is Bid’ah (innovation) and a form of Shirk.
3. To visit graveyards to offer sacrifices for the dead, draw closer to them through this, to make Du’a' (supplication) to the dead, not to Allah, or to seek their help, support, or protection. This is major Shirk- may Allah protect us. We must avoid these innovated visits. It makes no difference whether the dead person is a prophet, a pious person or anyone else.
Thus, the same prohibition applies to what some ignorant do at Rasulullah salallahu’alaihi wa sallam such as supplicating and seeking help from him or at the grave of Al-Husayn, Al-Badawy, or Shaykh ‘Abdul-Qadir Al-Jilany, and so on.
May Allah help us all!"
{ Source : Majmoo’ al Fataawa Ibn Baaz, Vol.13 / p.285 - 287 }
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