Umar ’s view regarding the relics of the prophets

It is narrated from Maroor that:

 “I performed the pilgrimage of the House of God in company of Umar. In the Morning Prayer, he recited Surah Feel and Surah Quraish. When the prayer ended, people looked at the Masjid and gathered there. Umar asked: What place is this?

They replied: It is the Masjid, in which the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) prayed.

Umar said: Before you, the People of the Book did the same and they were destroyed, because they build churches at the locations of the relics of prophets. When it is time of prayer, you may pray there or just pass by [and this Masjid has no specialty that you should seek benediction from it].”

[Seerah Umar, Ibne Jauzi, 107 [Pg. 116]; Sharh Nahjul Balagha, Ibne Abil Hadeed, 3:122 [12/101, Sermon 223], here instead of Maroor, Mughira bin Suwaid is mentioned; Fathul Bari, 1:450 [1/569].