Every believer has a desire to visit the Blessed Grave of Prophet(صلى الله عليه وسلم) during his life time. Some even spend their entire earning just to have a glimpse of it. But unfortunately some people from the minority sect have started corrupting the innocent minds of muslim ummah and thereby misleading them with false information. These extremist declare the act of visiting the Blessed Grave of Prophet(صلى الله عليه وسلم) as Biddah(Innovation) and Haram as was propagated by Ibn Taymiyyah whose verdict Imam Ibn Hajr al Asqalani (rah) rightly called as: "ONE OF THE MOST UGLY THINGS REPORTED FROM IBN TAYMIYYAH"
(ألزموا ابن تيمية بتحريم شد الرحل إلى زيارة قبر سيدنا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلّم وأنكرنا صورة ذلك، وفي شرح ذلك من الطرفين طول، وهي من أبشع المسائل المنقولة عن ابن تيمية) [Fath ul Bari, Sharh Sahih ul Bukhari (3/386)] This will be shown later on in this article. Now let us analyze the hadiths on this issue.
