Places of significance

Q: Is there any significance attached to the ghilaaf of the Kabah of recent times or of any time for that matter?

Q: Is there any significance of writing ones name on the Ka'bah Shareef?

Q: The increase in reward in Masjidul Haraam, is it only for the Salaah one performs or for all ibadaat one carries out?

Q: Is there any special virtue of visiting the cave of hira or the cave of thaur during Haj or Umrah?

Q: What is the virtue of reading two rakaats in the Hateem?

Q: Is it true that under the Hateem three hundred Ambiyaa are buried?

Q:

1. What is the meezaab e rahmat?
2. In umrah what is the amount of qasr in cutting the hair?
3. How many times do you have to make istilaam in umrah, 8 or 9 times? 
4. When should you read 2 nafl in the hateem?

Q: It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah that Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: "The area between my house and my minbar is one of the gardens (rawdah) of Paradise, and my minbar is on my cistern (hawd).

My question is that that will that part of earth be raised into jannah its a duplicate of that part of earth?

Also I heard its shirk to dua from other poeple I mean like you trust into them. Or making dua though someone. Please shed some light on this topic with the opinion of the hanafi maddhab.